1,028 Quotes About Lessons

God is an author, and we are His best story.

I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.

Every pain is a lesson.

There is an aid for helping us to learn how to distinguish between the ego way and the higher way. It is pain. The ego way inevitably leads to pain, even if it seems to temporarily satisfy. The higher way does not. It works. And it works harmoniously. It brings the sort of success that has no bitter after-taste. It is not manipulative. It doesn’t play one person against another. It doesn’t feed anyone’s fantasies. It is honest and it protects the good.

Life doesn’t happen to you, but for you. Lessons can be found in everyone’s story.

Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ.

The only time that pain is not opportunity is when we won’t let it be. But even then, it is opportunity even though we have rendered it opportunity missed.

We are EXPECTED to commit failures, bECause we are in an imperfect environment designed to keep us learning each day.

I don’t want to fear the mess that I’ve made of the past, nor fear the mess that I feel I’ll make of the future. What I want to do is to realize that I stand in a moment between both that is dictated by neither. Therefore, I have the power to heal from the former and change the latter.