It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.
—Hugh Prather
Topics: Realistic Expectations, Giving, Kindness, Service, Awareness, Expectations, Acceptance, Realization
I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a ‘mistake’ is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.
—Hugh Prather
Topics: Betrayal, Adversity, Failures, Difficulties, Mistakes
I live now and only now, and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.
—Hugh Prather
Topics: The Present
Perfectionism is slow death.
—Hugh Prather
Topics: Perfection
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
—Hugh Prather
Topics: Realization, Acceptance, Virtue, Perfection, Awareness
Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
—Hugh Prather
Topics: Life and Living
Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of ‘being myself’, so that I can see who it is I want to be.
—Hugh Prather
Every moment that I am centered in the future, I suffer a temporary loss of this life.
—Hugh Prather
Topics: The Present
Why choose to be right instead of happy when there is no way to be right?
—Hugh Prather
Topics: Happy, Right
Happiness is a present attitude—not a future condition.
—Hugh Prather
Topics: Joy
Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference.
—Hugh Prather
Topics: Feedback
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.
—Hugh Prather
Topics: Living, Change, Self-Discovery
To avail yourself of His certain wisdom, ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him, for that will never be necessary.
—Hugh Prather
Topics: Prayer
Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.
—Hugh Prather
Topics: Difficulty, Honesty, Humility
I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human – I’m uncomfortable around gods.
—Hugh Prather
Topics: Perfection
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
—Hugh Prather
Topics: Action
Love expands.
—Hugh Prather
Topics: Love
Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I’m bored; there must be something else I want to be doing … boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.
—Hugh Prather
Topics: Boredom
It’s not that “today is the first day of the rest of my life,” but that now is all there is of my life.
—Hugh Prather
Topics: The Present
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- Lewis B. Smedes American Christian Theologian
- Thomas Browne English Author, Physician
- Charles Sheldon American Christian Minister
- John C. Maxwell American Christian Professional Speaker
- Chuck Swindoll American Christian Pastor
- A. W. Tozer American Christian Pastor
- Mary Manin Morrissey American Christian Religious Leader
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