truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 27 December 2006 12:05 pm

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 27 December 2006 12:07 pm

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

Mother Teresa

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 28 December 2006 8:46 am

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Jim Rohn

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 28 December 2006 9:35 am

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Jim Rohn

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 28 December 2006 9:35 am

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Jim Rohn

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 28 December 2006 9:37 am

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Jim Rohn

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 28 December 2006 9:38 am

The passion of self-esteem is a three-pronged barb heated and forged by the demons out of vanity, presumption and arrogance. Yet those who dwell under the protection of the God of heaven (cf. Ps. 91.1) detect it easily and shatter its prongs, for through their humility they rise above such vices and find repose in the tree of life.

Nikitas Stithatos, Philokalia, Vol. 4