Quanah Parker

"The White man goes into his church and talks about Jesus.  The Indian goes into his tipi and talks with Jesus."

Richard Rohr

"You do not think yourself into a new way of living as much as you live your way into a new way of thinking."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will."

Richard Rohr

"The mystic sits in the silence of the language until it silences him into the experience itself."

Pat DeWitt Thomas

"I wonder sometimes if telling those that we  perceive as the enemy that they are always wrong is not in reality a seed of war that we are sowing."

Pat DeWitt Thomas

"My personal truth is grounded and rooted in God's Absolute Truth."

Hildegard of Bingen

"A Rule of life should lay upon us like a feather, not like an elephant."

Richard Rohr

" God always entices us through love."

"God loves you so that you can change.  What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change, is the experience of love and acceptance itself.  It is the engine of change."

Aldo Leopold

"There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements."

Margaret Wheatley

"Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful."

Margaret Wheatley

"Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances."

Margaret Wheatley

"When we begin listening to each other, and when we talk about things that matter to us, the world begins to change.  Human conversation is the most ancient and easiest way to cultivate the conditions of change - personal change, community, and organizational change."

Thomas R. Kelly

"Lead a listening life.  Order your outward life so that nothing drowns out the listening."

Richard Rohr

"Willful people use Scripture literally when it serves their purposes; willing people let the Scriptures change them instead of using them to change others."

Emily Dickenson

"Beauty isn't caused.  It is."

Louis Agassiz

"The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind.  You should never trifle with Nature."