NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 126

·        “A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.”—Brad Henry

• ·        "But real praying does attain reality. Even when the air currents are ascending, no bird can soar except by outstretched wings."
  ·        “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.”—Helen Keller
  ·        "All Urantia is waiting for the proclamation of the ennobling message of Michael, unencumbered by the accumulated doctrines and dogmas of nineteen centuries of contact with the religions of evolutionary origin."
  ·        "Religious desire is the hunger quest for divine reality. Religious experience is the realization of the consciousness of having found God. And when a human being does find God, there is experienced within the soul of that being ... an indescribable restlessness of triumph in discovery."
  ·        “The memory of God comes to the quiet mind. It cannot come where there is conflict; for a mind at war against itself remembers no eternal gentleness.”
  — A Course in Miracles
  ·        The tough minded…respect difference. – Ruth Fulton Benedict
  ·        No idea is so antiquated that it was not one modern. – Ellen Glasgow
  ·        Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade. – James M. Barrie
  ·        Attitude might not catch fish, but it helps when you don’t.
  ·        "Miracles reawaken the awareness that the spirit, not the body, is the altar of truth. This is the recognition that leads to the
  healing power of the miracle.
  ·        "Jesus came into this world just as other children come ... he entered the world in a natural manner, growing up as a child of the realm and wrestling with the vicissitudes of his environment just as do other mortals on this
  and on similar worlds."