NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 168

• "True religion is designed to lessen the strain of existence; it releases faith and courage for daily living and unselfish serving. Faith promotes spiritual vitality and 

• righteous fruitfulness." 
• • “To strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them.” ~ Unknown
• • "Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them." -Leo Rosten
• • "When a great truth seeker and a great truth giver meet, the result is a great and liberating enlightenment born of the experience of new truth." 
• • “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”—W. Clement Stone
• • “In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. ” —Thomas Jefferson
• • "When you have presented to mortal man the good news that God is his Father, you can the easier persuade him that he is in reality a son of God. And having done that, you have brought the light of salvation to the one who sits in darkness."
• • "Jesus transcended all the teachings of his forebears when he boldly substituted clean hearts for clean hands as the mark of true religion. He put reality in the place of tradition and swept aside all pretensions of vanity and hypocrisy." 
• • “If you don't stick to your values when they are being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.”—Jon Stewart
• • “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.”—Oprah Winfrey
• • "Evolutionary religion pictures the circuitous gropings of humanity in quest of truth; revelatory religion 
• is that very truth."
• • “Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.”—Brené Brown