Quotes about Center
The temptation for farandola or for man or for star is to stay an immature pleasure-seeker. When we seek our own pleasure as the ultimate good we place ourselves as the center of the universe
- Madeleine L'Engle
Don't try to understand it. You won't succeed. Don't try to see it. You can't. Try to live it, and you will be living out of the center.
- Brennan Manning
God is not bound by the human presumption that we are the center of everything, and creation did not actually demand or need Jesus (or us, for that matter) to confer additional sacredness upon it.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Without a transcendent connection, each of us is stuck in his own little psyche, struggling to create meaning and produce an identity all by himself. When we inevitably fail at this-because we can't do it alone-we suffer shame and self-defeat. Or we try to pretend that our small universe of country, ethnicity, team, or denomination is actually the center of the world.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Everything I see and know is indeed one "uni-verse," revolving around one coherent center. This Divine Presence seeks connection and communion, not separation or division—except for the sake of an even deeper future union.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
do not find our own Center; it finds us. The body is in the soul. It is both the place of contact and the place of surrender.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.Life just has to go on!
- Rick Warren
Whatever is at the center of your life is your god
- Rick Warren
To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.
- Georgia Harkness
If there is no passionate love for Christ at the center of everything, we will only jingle and jangle our way across the world, merely making a noise as we go
- William Wilberforce
The believer alone will be able to hear the call. It comes from beyond ourselves, beyond our society, beyond the climate of opinion and prejudice and rebellion and skepticism in which we live, and beyond our time and taste. It draws toward the center of all things, that still place of which T.S. Eliot wrote : Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the centre of the silent Word.
- Elisabeth Elliot
As a pastor, you get invited into the most poignant moments of people's lives. Whether it's a wedding or a funeral or a hospital visit, you get invited into the center of the event, whether or not you know the people.
- Rob Bell