I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right,

temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Microaggressions are the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory, or

negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership.

~ Derald Wing Sue

I was feeling safe. Not the kind of safe where you know there are still bad things howling outside the door waiting to get in. No, it was the kind of safe where you sink down in your bed at the end of the day and know you can go to sleep and

everything is going to be the same tomorrow.

~ Lilith Saintcrow

Helen Keller

She, 

In the dark,

Found light

Brighter than many ever see.

She,

Within herself,

Found loveliness,

Through the soul's own mastery.

And now the world receives

From her dower:

The message of the strength

Of inner power.

~ Langston Hughes

Do you accept the freedom and power God gives you to resist evil, injustice, and oppression in whatever forms they present themselves?

~ United Methodist Church, Baptismal Vow

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

~ Marianne Williamson

Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes,

when you’re lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.

~ Adela Rogers

Find out where the joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

If thou hast two loaves of bread, sell one and buy flowers, for bread is food for the body, but flowers are food for the mind.

~ Galen of Pergamon, c. 200 AD.

Not at once; but woman is the mothering element in the world and her vote will go toward helping forward the time when life's Bread, which is home, shelter and security, and the Roses of life, music, education, nature and books, shall be the heritage of every child that is born in the country, in the government of which she has a voice.

~ Helen Todd, 1910

Human dignity is the same for all human beings; when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.

~ Pope Francis

No one has ever become poor by giving.

~ Anne Frank

First, provide things needful for yourself; food to eat, raiment to put on, whatever nature moderately requires for preserving the body in health and strength. Secondly, provide these for your wife [sic], your children, your servants or any others who pertain to your household. If when this is done there be an overplus left, then “do good to them that are of the household of faith.” If there be an overplus still, “as you have opportunity, do good unto all men [sic].” In so doing, you give all you can; nay in a sound sense, all you have.

~ John Wesley

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

~ Khalil Gibran

Saving prudently is difficult because it calls for a radical reorganization of our lives, and that’s exactly the point.

It’s nothing less than a conversion experience as we reorient our whole existence around the value of God’s kingdom. - James A. Harnish

Do not throw the precious talent into the sea: Leave that folly to heathen philosophers. Do not throw it away in idle expenses, which is just the same as throwing it into the sea. Expend no part of it merely to gratify the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eye, or the pride of life.

~ John Wesley from his

Sermon “The Use of Money”

Gain all you can without hurting your soul, your body, or your neighbor’s soul or body. ~ John Wesley

Never work just for money or for power.

They won’t help save your soul or help you sleep at night.

~ Marian Wright Edelman

Seeing our work as a calling from God puts the challenge to “earn all you can” in the context of the larger purpose of our work. Wesley’s instruction is not merely to earn money for its own sake but to earn it for the higher purpose of fulfilling God’s intention for our lives.

~ James A. Harnish