James McGreevey Quotes

My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.

The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.

In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

Being in Hollywood and having a love for Christ is hard. I mean, it's hard anywhere because Jesus is about the Upside Down Kingdom. You know, serve instead of being served, go last and don't try to be first.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone.

We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.

Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.

One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.

Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.

I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.

Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.