Bryant H. McGill Quotes

Don't use your faith to try to get rid of problems. Use your faith to remain calm in the midst of your problems.

I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people’s craziness has not managed to make me crazy.

You've only mastered the storm you can sleep through.

I understand... the pressure is definitely hard, but I think just keeping your head on your shoulders is easier than it looks. I think if you know who you are, then I think you'll be fine for the rest of the way.

It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.

In some of the darkest and hardest moments, there is always a part of me that is okay. And I can always access that part of me.

I am inviting you to go deeper, to learn and to practice so that you become someone who has a great capacity for being solid, calm, and without fear, because our society needs people like you who have these qualities, and your children, our children, need people like you, in order to go on, in order to become solid, and calm, and without fear.

I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to, remembering something my Guru once said -- that you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead.

Just because we're in a STRESSFUL situation doesn't mean that we have to get stressed out. You may be in the storm. The key is, don't let the storm get in YOU.

I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was holding myself together.

I just refuse to worry or get upset or be fearful. It doesn't do one particle of good.

I'm not frightened of a bit of silence.

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them

I don't let other people get under my skin.

I have the strength to remain calm in the face of change.

The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man.

Don't allow yourself to be upset and disturbed. Hold your peace because without it you have no power.

Like the ocean that remains calm in its depths even when waves rage over its surface, and like the sun that continues shining on high even during storms, we can at each moment create value and develop our state of life, enjoying our existence to the fullest in times of both suffering and joy.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

Not worrying is a skill. It's a skill not breaking down every single moment.

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

...to tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control

While they flail about, you will remain calm in the knowledge that you possess strength from within.

Let unexpected incidents roll off you like raindrops dancing down your bedroom window.

The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... a man may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson.