Ched Myers Quotes

“What is unbelief but the despair, dictated by the dominant powers, that nothing can really change?”

“Is not prayer the intensely personal struggle within each disciple, and among us collectively, to resist the despair and distractions that cause us to practice unbelief, to abandon or avoid the way of Jesus?”

“To pray is to learn to believe in in a transformation of self and world, which seems, empirically, impossible.”

“Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.”

“The end is never worth the beginning.”

“Thinking there had to be a better way was a brilliant stroke of serendipity!”

“When the awareness of what is achievable brushes your life, your journey has begun.”

“When I think of excellence in motion, I think of the big picture. Because of the magnitude of this concept, I look at it from an aerial perspective. It is a mindset that challenges the boundaries of self-induced limits—that point where you aspire to exceed your expectations, where the mind-body-achievement connection resides and wins time and time again.”

“Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of all time, such as Alexander the Great, Pericles of Athens, Hannibal of Carthage, and Julius Caesar of Rome, were all pagans, or else living in a pagan society.”

“Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms.”