Tvedten Quotes

#1. Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

Rumi

#2. He felt, and not for the first time today, that he had not made a good decision in his personal or professional life since 1989.

Michael Chabon

#3. Conversion may mean changing one's mind, overcoming prejudices, looking at things differently. Someone has remarked that conversatio means never having to say, 'But we've always done it this way.

Benet Tvedten

#4. I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.

Nikki Giovanni

#5. The effect of our sharing in the body and blood of Christ is to change us into what we receive. ~

Scott Hahn

#6. One cannot conclude that there are no great saints just because no great miracles are worked. The true estimate of life, after all, lies in acts of virtue, not in the display of miracles. There are many, Peter, who without performing miracles, are not at all inferior to those who perform them.

Benet Tvedten

#7. Radically accept, release and allow suffering to move through you like a passing storm.

Lisa Cypers Kamen

#8. When we react angrily or negatively about everything that happens to us, we're failing in patience.

Benet Tvedten

#9. Right now I think I'm the smartest I've ever been. I'm doing everything great now and everything perfect. Like with this taxes stuff. I'm getting better at that. I'm making sure everything is a write-off. Every single thing.

Kendra Wilkinson

#10. God knows how often I pray for you. Day and night I bring you and your needs in prayer to God.

Gary Chapman

#11. When one had sufficient control over fantasy, one had no need of reality.

Roger MacBride Allen

#12. Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of them.

Rajneesh

#13. Don't seek God elsewhere. Seek God now, right here, in the routine things that have to be done. Find God in the ordinary circumstances of your life.

Benet Tvedten

#14. A productive marriage requires falling in enjoy numerous occasions, usually with the identical man or woman.

Mignon McLaughlin

#15. Being Benedictine--a monastic or an oblate--means trying a little harder to show the courtesy of love for one another, to see Christ in the people with whom, we live, work and pray--and to look for Him even in the people with whom we disagree.

Benet Tvedten