Joyce Rupp Quotes

#1. I heard a wise saying once that has helped me: Negative feelings are like stray cats. The more you feed them, the more they hang around.

Joyce Rupp

#2. I use every opportunity, whether on my radio show or on television, to break stereotypes.

Ryan Seacrest

#3. Instead of the weight that sinks us, consequences are often the life preserver that saves us.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#4. Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.

Margaret Bourke-White

#5. Marriage is the internationally recognised system of relationship recognition. It is the global language of love. When we were young, most of us dreamed of one day getting married. We didn't dream about having a civil partnership.

Peter Tatchell

#6. Hope is not just one single quality or promise. Hope has to do with believing beyond today - knowing there's a garden of beauty that awaits me.

Joyce Rupp

#7. If I raised my hand to wipe the hair out of my children's eyes, they'd flinch and call their attorney.

Erma Bombeck

#8. God of peace,
you are at the center of my life,
a strong refuge of peace
in the whirlwind of my pain.
I look to you for strength
and a constant assurance of hope.

Joyce Rupp

#9. A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#10. I will offer thanks for someone who paid a price for offering compassion to me. I will place myself beneath the cross of another who needs my compassion.

Joyce Rupp

#11. The way of obedience is the way of blessing.

T. B. Joshua

#12. Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.

Charles Bukowski

#13. No matter how much light I carry within me, there will always be times of feeling lost, being confused, seeking direction. It is the way of the human heart.

Joyce Rupp

#14. Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

Ernest Bramah

#15. Almost 400 years ago, Shakespeare was portraying adolescents in a very similar light to the light that we portray them in today - but today we try to understand their behavior in terms of the underlying changes that are going on in their brain.

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

#16. Drink more water and walk in a relaxed manner.

Joyce Rupp

#17. By the light of your stars, heal me.

Joyce Rupp

#18. Union in privacy (with one's wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.

Chanakya

#19. If I wait to be perfect before I love myself I will always be unsatisfied and ungrateful if I wait until all the flaws, chips, and cracks disappear I will be the cup that stands on the shelf and is never used

Joyce Rupp

#20. 30. A philosopher without clothes and one without books. "I have nothing to eat," says he, as he stands there half-naked, "but I subsist on the logos." And with nothing to read, I subsist on it too.

Marcus Aurelius

#21. People gain so much hope when they know they are not experiencing something alone.

Joyce Rupp