Doing God's Work

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa

It is the quality of our work which will please God
and not the quantity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

There are many answers you have received
but have not yet heard.
- A Course In Miracles

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono

Grant That I May Radiate Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Joy, and Thy Peace,
to All Those Around Me
and All Those in My Thoughts
This Day and Ever More.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today's affirmation:
I shine my Light of God wherever I see darkness.

Further reading: Be an Open Channel

Be a Pillar of Goodness

Good Works

Faith, Hope, and Charity

Pay It Forward

Create Light

Service

Peace

Generosity

The Voices

We hear two voices calling us,
one saying, "Why not?"
and the other, "Why bother?"
- Sydney J. Harris

Everyone who wills, can hear the inner voice.
It is within everyone.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Righteousness does not speak in the powerful voices blaring from your television. Righteousness speaks in a small quiet voice from deep within your own soul.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are perfect. You are complete.
Your inner voice always knows what to do,
but it is a quiet voice.
You can only hear the whisperings of your inner voice -
your inner compass - when you turn down the volume
of your fears, your regrets, your resentments,
and the fear-based advice
your neighbors are so willing to give you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: A Small Quiet Voice

Really Listen

Trust Your Own Advice

Your Inner Voice

Intuition

Feeling Unworthy

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves,
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson

If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Read more on this quote.

When you find your path, you must not be afraid.
You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are
the tools God uses to show us the way.
- Paulo Coelho

Each man kills the thing he loves.
- Oscar Wilde
See an analysis of this quote.

"Pride" is such a double-edged sword -
Self-Worth on one edge and Ego on the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: What Really Matters

HONOR - the first Point of Simply An Inspired Life

Self-Care

Life Mastery

Your Mission

Life Purpose

Success

Self Worth

Honor Your Heart

All that is real is seen with the heart.
- Vivian Greene

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs

Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha

Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb

The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal

The most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller

Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading:  Follow Your Heart

How to Be Yourself

Love in My Heart

Listen To Your Heart

Changing Your Heart

Honor

Be Yourself

Are You a Prisoner?

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free
and realizing you were the prisoner!
- Max Lucado

The worst prison would be a closed heart.
- Pope John Paul II

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create.
You're jailed up inside of yourself.
- Edie Brickell

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
- George Savile

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
- Ben Jonson

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.
- Sol LeWitt

Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading:  Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life

Prisoner of Habit

Fly Free

Prisoner

Jailer

Obligation

Forgiveness