Quotes about Abundance

Whatever you have received more than others in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life, all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. You must pay a price for it. You must render in return an unusually great sacrifice of your life for other life.

Thanks to the abundance of shellfish in Puget Sound, Washington State is the largest oyster producer in the country.

I've been blessed in so many ways.

God tries to first create a joyous yes inside of you, far more than any kind of no . . . Just saying no is resentful dieting, whereas finding your deeper yes, and eating from that table, is always a spiritual banquet.

All the emptying out is only for the sake of a Great Outpouring.

Our small, scarcity-based worldview is the real aberration here, and I believe it has largely contributed to the rise of atheism and the "practical atheism" that is the actual operative religion of most Western countries today. The God we've been presenting people with is just too small and too stingy for a big-hearted person to trust or to love back.

you no longer need to protect or defend the mere part. You are now connected to something inexhaustible.

Does the Almighty One operate from a scarcity model of love and forgiveness?

It is strange that when people have so much, they are so anxious about not having enough—to do, to see, to own, to fix, to control, to change.

All the emptying out is only for the sake of a Great Outpouring. God, like nature, abhors all vacuums, and rushes to fill them.

whatever that takes, and then has plenty left over for others. True heroism serves the common good, or it is not really heroism at all.

Resurrection is contagious, and free for the taking. It is everywhere visible and available for those who have learned how to see, how to rejoice, and how to neither hoard nor limit God's ubiquitous gift.