Sharing some Thoughts (and Quotations) on the Power of Love to Make a Difference

Article Title: Sharing some Thoughts (and Quotations) on the Power of Love to Make a Difference (through Helping Make a Shift in Global Consciousness)
Author Name: Craig Lock
Web site: http://www.savedarfur.org
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Key Words: Inspiration, Spirituality, love, Darfur, Sudan

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Sharing some Thoughts (and Quotations) on the Power of Love to Make a Difference (through Helping Make a Shift in Global Consciousness)

... which I believe is the only way the world will move towards a more peaceful planet.

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"Love is the only force that can erase the difference between people or bridge the chasms of bitterness. In a changing world, it is a constant. It is the security of the home. It is a beacon of hope in a world of distress." *
- Wayne R. Bills, MA

"Faith is the pillar of strength that allows man to achieve the impossible, reach the unattainable and solve the unfathomable."

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not selfseeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13 (NIV)

"There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power. Only strive for power, if it is not at the cost of other people. Power corrupts. You first have to be pure and righteous, before one can attain power. I believe that love is a greater force than power."
- Alan Paton, great South African humanitarian and author of the classic 'Cry the Beloved Country"

Great inspiring words of wisdom
Through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder
murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish
truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder
hate. Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that...

Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with
an audacious faith in the future. When our days become dreary with
low-hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a
thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in
this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a
power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark
yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral
universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
- Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
- Martin Luther King, Jr

I love the following quote which guides and inspires me daily, so am sharing...

"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed."
- J. Krishnamurti (thanks mom)

"There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer. There is no disease that enough love will not heal. No door that enough love will not open. No gulf that enough love will not bridge. No wall that enough love will not throw down. And no sin that enough love will not redeem. It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble. How hopeless the outlook. How muddled the tangle. How great the mistake. A sufficient realisation of love will dissolve it all. And if you could love enough, you would be the happiest and most powerful person in the world."
- Emmett Fox

"When the power of love overcomes (or conquers) the love of power, man and the world will at long last know peace."
- adapted slightly from American musician, Jimi Hendrix

I see only one hope for our very troubled world, and that is when all peoples, black, brown and white desiring neither power, money nor especially a sense of self importance, come together to work hard for it with the creative spirit, that is in every one of us. With economic growth and the creation of jobs, people feel secure with a sense of well-being...and are happy.

When people act in a spirit of goodness, concern for humanity and especially utmost integrity, desiring only the good of their countries and so the world, the world be a far more prosperous and peaceful place - a world perhaps one day even at peace with itself.
- craig

LOVE is the greatest and most powerful force in the world (as was the simple message of Jesus Christ);
so shine your own unique bright light on an often darkened world ...in a spirit of living at the highest level of humanity.

"When the world is filled with love, people's hearts are overflowing
with hope."
- craig
http://www.craiglockbooks.com
http://www2.webng.com/writernz/

"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"Be the very best person you can be. Become the person you are CAPABLE of being ... and ALL the person God,
the Ultimate Source, the Essence of Existence intended and CALLED us to become....and most importantly, have 'loads' of FUN along the journey."
- craig

Uplifting, encouraging and empowering people through the power of words and thought energy. Change YOUR world and you change THE world."

PPS:
The world community has largely ignored the genocide going on in the African country of Sudan. You CAN make a difference by asking your leaders to take some ACTION NOW in Darfur. Should you wish to petition President Bush to take some action on the genocide in Daefur, click on: http://action.savedarfur.org/dia/organizationsORG/darfur/campaign.jsp?ca...
This will send a message asking President Bush to launch his plan to make Sudan cooperate with international efforts to end the violence...

and please don't forget about the dire situation in Zimbabwe in Southern Africa!

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