Laubach Quotes

#1. What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.

Walt Whitman

#2. Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.

Bodie Thoene

#3. Once drawing the coach across the road, with the mutinous intent of taking it back to Blackheath. Reins and whip and coachman and guard, however, in combination, had read that article of war

Charles Dickens

#4. We really seldom do anybody much good excepting as we share the deepest experiences of our souls... We need to struggle for more richness of soul." ("Letters By a Modern Mystic," January 26, 1930)

Frank C. Laubach

#5. Americans love to pick up, move on, start over. But instead of being somebody fresh and new, they become somebody lonely and lost, or, far too often these days, they become nobody at all, a machine for satisfying hunger, without loyalty or honor or duty.

Orson Scott Card

#6. Upon learning to see a man becomes everything by becoming nothing. He,

Carlos Castaneda

#7. The Lord will not wish to count my trophies, but my scars.

Frank Laubach

#8. The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says 'Amen' and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him our ideas.

Frank Laubach

#9. Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation-and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.

Frank C. Laubach

#10. I choose to look at people through God, using God as my glasses, colored with His love for them.

Frank Laubach

#11. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him your ideas.

Frank Laubach

#12. Conceptual writing is looking for that "Aha!" moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound, and transcendent.

Kenneth Goldsmith

#13. If you are weary of some sleepy form of devotion, probably God is as weary of it as you are.

Frank Laubach

#14. Our mind is a flowing something. It oscillates. Concentration is merely the continuous return to the same problem from a million angles ... So my problem is this: Can I bring the Lord back in my mind-flow every few seconds so that God shall always be in my mind?

Frank Laubach

#15. Ribbons," he said, "should be considered as clothes, which are the mark of a human being. All animals should go naked."
When Boxer heard this he fetched the small straw hat which he wore in summer to keep the flies out of his ears, and flung it on to the fire with the rest.

George Orwell

#16. The simple program of Christ for winning the whole world is to make each person he touches magnetic enough with love to draw others.

Frank Laubach

#17. But this year I have started out trying to live all my waking moments in conscious listening to the inner voice, asking without ceasing, 'What, Father, do you desire said? What, Father, do you desire done this minute?'

Frank Laubach

#18. We shall not become like Christ until we give Him more time.

Frank Laubach

#19. Well, I reckon you should
" Ron began, but he was interrupted by the Fat Lady, who had been watching them sleepily and now burst out, "Are you going to give me the password or will I have to say awake all night waiting for you to finish your conversation?

J.K. Rowling

#20. The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily.

Frank Laubach

#21. Just the privilege of fellowship with God is infinitely more than any thing that God could give. When he gives himself he is giving more than anything else in the universe.

Frank Laubach

#22. Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.

David Hockney

#23. I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement.

Mark Cuban

#24. I feel simply carried along each hour, doing my part in a plan which is far beyond myself. [ ... ] My part is to live this hour in continuous inner conversation with God and in perfect responsiveness to His will. This seems to be all I need to think about.

Frank Laubach

#25. Oh, this thing of keeping in constant touch with God, of making him the object of my thought and the companion of my conversations, is the most amazing thing I ever ran across.

Frank Laubach

#26. All John Reed's violent tyrannies, all his sisters' proud indifference, all his mother's aversion, all the servants' partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a dark deposit in a turbid well.

Charlotte Bronte

#27. We must pray for more prayer, for it is the world's mightiest healing force.

Frank Laubach

#28. It is as much our duty to live in the beauty of the presence of God on some mount of transfiguration until we become white with Christ as it is for us to go down where the needy people grope and grovel, and groan and lift them to new life.

Frank Laubach

#29. Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.

Bill Bryson

#30. God, I want to give You every minute of this year. I shall try to keep You in mind every moment of my waking hours ... I shall try to let You be the speaker and direct every word. I shall try to let You direct my acts. I shall try to learn Your language.

Frank C. Laubach

#31. Running and meditation are very personal activities. Therefore they are lonely. This loneliness is one of their best qualities because it strengthens our incentive to motivate ourselves.

Sakyong Mipham

#32. There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.

Frank C. Laubach

#33. I have done nothing but open windows-God has done all the rest.

Frank C. Laubach