Paul Evans
Paul Evans
religious compassion giving
Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good.
grateful thinking glasses
You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.
love-you love-is rejection
"You know, I've wondered if it's more painful to lose someone you love to death or to lose someone you love because she no longer loves you back." "I don't know," I said. "On the surface, it seems an easy question. It should be so much easier to lose someone who doesn't love you, because why would you want to be with someone who doesn't want you? But rejection's not an east road. A part of you always wonders what makes you so unlovable."
commitment reality mind
Commitment to a plan or thought carries with it a force that can influence the unconscious mind and bring about the desired effect. In other words, once we decide to have something, the mind unconsciously begins to create the reality necessary to bring to pass what we desire.
gratitude powerful emotion
. . . Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.
rocks vanity hitting
The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.
challenges steps chance
Only those who never step, never stumble.
appreciate-beauty people looks
Some people in this world have stopped looking for beauty, then wonder why their lives are so ugly. Don't be like them. The ability to appreciate beauty is of God. Especially in one another. Look for beauty in everyone you meet, and you'll find it. Everyone carries divinity within them. And everyone we meet has something to impart.
blessing joy natural
Joy isn't the natural response to blessings - joy is what comes from acknowledging them.
grace forgiving faults
The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.
hurt journey soul
As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging to a hiker's socks. These stowaways may seem insignificant at first, but, over time, if we do not occasionally stop and shake them free, the accumulation becomes a burden to our souls.
inspirational insperational cracks
Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.
people winner problem
Everyone has problems. It's how you choose to deal with them. Some people choose to be whiners some choose to be winners. Some choose to be victims some choose to be victors.
believe littles needs
Everybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don't believe that frighten me a little.