Kevin Kruse Inspirational Quotes

...the postwar revolution in America's religious identity had its roots not in the foreign policy panic of the 1950s but rather in the domestic politics of the 1930s and early 1940s. Decades before Eisenhower's inaugural prayers, corporate titans enlisted conservative clergymen in an effort to promote new political arguments embodied in the phrase "freedom under God." As the private correspondence and public claims of the men leading this charge make clear, this new ideology was designed to defeat the state power its architects feared most - not the Soviet regime in Moscow, but Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal administration in Washington. ~ Kevin M. Kruse

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever." - Chinese proverb ~ Kevin E. Kruse

You need to start paying other people to do stuff for you even before you feel you are ready. ~ Kevin Kruse

Actually, highly successful people don't think about time much at all. Instead, they think about values, priorities, and consistent habits. ~ Kevin Kruse

In his study of Atlanta over the last 60 years, Kevin Kruse convincingly describes the critical connections between race, Sun Belt suburbanization, the rise of the new Republican majority. White Flight is a powerful and compelling book that should be read by anyone interested in modern American politics and post-World War II urban history. ~ Dan Carter

Two Awesome Hours in the Morning After identifying your MIT, you need to turn it into a calendar item and book it as early in your day as possible. Dan Ariely, a Duke University professor of psychology and behavioral economics, suggests that most people are most productive and have the highest cognitive functioning in the first two hours after they're fully awake. In a Reditt Ask Me Anything, Ariely wrote: One of the saddest mistakes in time management is the propensity of people to spend the two most productive hours of their day on things that don't require high cognitive capacity (like social media). If we could salvage those precious hours, most of us would be much more successful in accomplishing what we truly want. ~ Kevin Kruse

The percentage of Americans who claimed membership in a church had been fairly low across the nineteenth century, though it had slowly increased from just 16 percent in 1850 to 36 percent in 1900. ~ Kevin M. Kruse

Eisenhower, in contrast, turned spirituality into spectacle. At a transition meeting with his cabinet nominees, he announced that they and their families were invited to a special religious service at National Presbyterian Church the morning of the inauguration. ~ Kevin M. Kruse

The Miracle Morning is about focusing on "becoming" more so that you can start doing less, to achieve more. ~ Kevin Kruse

Life isn't about getting and having, it's about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse ~ Kevin E. Kruse

We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that comes into being through this particular conjunction and no other. And the key to this is the kind of attention we pay to the world. ~ Iain McGilchrist

[referencing that what bothered her about Hansel and Gretel was the weak willed father who let the evil stepmother send the children into the woods not once but twice, and the unease of children reunited happily with their father] : In many ways that unease has guided me through these stories, that note of trouble that I think many of us hear in familiar tales, because we know - even as children - that impossible tasks are an odd way to choose a spouse, that predators come in many guises, that a prince's whims are often cruel. The more I listened to that note of warning, the more inspiration I found. ~ Leigh Bardugo

Start going - you will find the way. ~ Debasish Mridha

Because true magic is found in the depth of one's soul. ~ Avijeet Das

But that's the thing about all of this," he says gently but urgently, "we survive. After each known down, each earth shattering blow, we get up again. Even though we walk through hell, and it feels like all we do is walk through hell, we do eventually make it to the otherside. Scarred. Mostly broken. But we survive. And then we start to rebuild ourselves. We're never the same, but we do rebuild ourselves. Because something like this is just another way in which we change. We all have to change. ~ Dorothy Koomson

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life. ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other. ~ Kevin Kelly

They stood, a family, and walked out of the mall, into the sunlight, seeking to rearrange the shape of their surroundings, to blow something up and watch all the tiny pieces resettle around them like falling snow. ~ Kevin Wilson

The distance between who I am, and who I want to be is measure only, by my actions. ~ Anonymous

They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

All life is theatre,' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves ... ~ Susan Cooper

Every day is a fresh beginning. Every morn is the world made anew. ~ Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

May your glory shine so bright that the world sees God's light in all you do! ~ Temitayo Olami

Tal was looking at Hank when he said, "Just a moment. I want to hear it one more time."
As they watched, Bernice found her way to Hank and Mary. She began to week openly, and spoke some quiet but impassioned words to them. Hank and Mary listened, as did the others nearby, and as they listened, they began to smile. They put their arms around her, they told her about Jesus, and then they began to weep as well. Finally, as the saints were gathered and Bernice was surrounded with loving arms, Hank said the words, "Let's pray ... ~ Frank E. Peretti

Kindness is the beauty of the heart and the smiles of the mind. ~ Debasish Mridha

Jimmer Fredette is the best scorer in the world!! ~ Kevin Durant

Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it. ~ M.H. McKee

Every morning, introduce one positive thought into your mind. Be persistent with it until it becomes your habit. It will change your life. ~ Debasish Mridha

Trust is the highest form of human motivation. ~ Stephen Covey

You could not presume that people were healthy. You could not presume that they would welcome the little nudges and jostlings of life. You had to behave as though everyone you met was walking a thin wire far above the earth, where the slightest wind might rock them off their balance and send them tumbling to the ground. ~ Kevin Brockmeier

Turn the mess of your life to a message of triumph for the world. ~ Debasish Mridha

Don't tell me what I want to hear. Tell me the truth. It may hurt, but it definitely won't hurt more than the feeling that I was told something out of pity, not out of honesty. If you mean it, say it. If you don't, keep your words until the right person is standing in front of you. If words are said too many times, they become cheap, and I only deserve to hear what is valuable ~ Najwa Zebian

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children in modern society] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there, and they are taught and told what to believe; they are passive from the very beginning – and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ [...] the child is taught. Right from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told? ~ Marilyn Vos Savant

We live in an adolescent society, Neverland, where never growing up seems more the norm than the exception. Little boys wearing expensive suits and adult bodies should not be allowed to run big corporations. They shouldn't be allowed to run governments, armies, religions, small businesses and charities either and just quietly, they make pretty shabby husbands and fathers too. Mankind has become Pankind and whilst "lost boys" abound, there is also an alarming increase in the number of "lost girls. ~ Daniel Prokop

Men come and go, but best friends are irreplaceable. ~ C.M. Stunich

Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual. ~ Steve Maraboli

If you are not able to find peace within yourself, no one will be able to bring you peace. ~ Debasish Mridha

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others. ~ Charles Darwin

When we go into stillness we can hear our soul's voice loud and clear. If we speak from our heart we share our soul's melody with the world. ~ Christina Goetz

If you stand for nothing; then you stand alone. ~ Gary A. Honey

Smile, just because you're alive and enjoying the magic of life. ~ Debasish Mridha

Life is a piece of art drawn by love on the canvas of hope with the colors of desires, wants, and needs. ~ Debasish Mridha

If you're such a shallow person that a goddamn bumper sticker can sum up your beliefs, then Jesus Christ, are you even worth fighting for in the end? ~ Jason Myers

I fight evil, and words are my weapons of choice. ~ A.D. Posey

To be depreciated and humiliated isn't a statement of your worth but rather an evidence of your disregarded potential. ~ Robin Sacredfire

Art might be beautiful even though the artist is not. ~ Debasish Mridha

Sometimes the smallest push leads to the greatest triumph. ~ Charles F. Glassman