“It's when we care for each other - choosing inclusion and love over division and hatred - that this great country is at its greatest.”—Tulsi Gabbard

“Protections of free speech are what makes inclusion and diversity possible.”—Mary Katharine Ham

“I feel like we need to be aware of the ways we use and misuse religious dogma: whether it takes us deeper into love and inclusion or it separates us.”—Sue Monk Kidd
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“The exclusion of God automatically means the inclusion of evil.”—Tony Evans

How can anyone who is identified with Jesus Christ suffer from doubt or fear!—Oswald Chambers in My Utmost for His Highest
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Identification with the death of Jesus Christ means identification with Him to the death of everything that never was in Him.—Oswald Chambers in Run Today’s Race

If we are devoted to the cause of humanity, we shall soon be crushed and broken-hearted, for we shall often meet with more ingratitude from men than we would from a dog; but if our motive is love to God, no ingratitude can hinder us from serving our fellow men.—Oswald Chambers in My Utmost for His Highest
            
“Impulse is a natural trait in natural life, but in spiritual things Our Lord absolutely checks it because it always hinders.”—Oswald Chambers in So Send I You 66

The characteristics of individuality are independence and self-assertiveness.  It is the continual assertion of individuality that hinders our spiritual life more than anything else.  If you say—“I cannot believe,” it is because individuality is in the road; individuality never can believe.—Oswald Chambers in My Utmost For His Highest

“It is the continual assertion of individuality that hinders our spiritual development more than anything else; individuality must go in order that personality may emerge and be brought into fellowship with God.”—Oswald Chambers in Biblical Ethics 34

No saint can ever be perfected in isolation or in any other way than God has laid down.  There are very few who are willing to lay hold of that for which they were laid hold of, they thank God for salvation and sanctification and then stagnate, consequently the equipping of the saints is hindered.—Oswald Chambers in The Philosophy of Sin 44
           
​“The chief hindrance of the Christian life is that because men do not believe that Christ is all, they consequently never think of the necessity of giving Him all.”—Andrew Murray in The Full Blessing of Pentecost
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“The long distance hiker, a breed set apart,
From the likes of the usual pack.
He’ll shoulder his gear, be hittin’ the trail;
Long gone, long ‘fore he’ll be back.”―M.J. Eberhart
 
But walking causes absorption. Walking interminably, taking in through your pores the height of the mountains when you are confronting them at length, breathing in the shape of the hills for hours at a time during a slow descent. The body becomes steeped in the earth it treads. And thus, gradually, it stops being in the landscape: it becomes the landscape. That doesn’t have to mean dissolution, as if the walker were fading away to become a mere inflection, a footnote. It’s more a flashing moment: sudden flame, time catching fire. And here, the feeling of eternity is all at once that vibration between presences. Eternity, here, in a spark.―Frédéric Gros, A Philosophy of Walking

All that is required of you is a willingness to trudge. There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. However far or long you trod you are always in the same place - in the woods. It's where you were yesterday, where you will be tomorrow.― Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

When all else fails, go hiking . . . Hiking is good for your body, mind, and soul.― T.J. Burr
            
Hiking is not escapism; it's realism. The people who choose to spend time outdoors are not running away from anything; we are returning to where we belong.―Jennifer Pharr Davis, The Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience

We move through this world on paths laid down long before we are born.― Robert Moor, On Trails: An Exploration
Nature is one of the most underutilized treasures in life. It has the power to unburden hearts and reconnect to that inner place of peace.―Dr. Janice Anderson & Kiersten Anderson

Hiking’s not for everyone. Notice the wilderness is mostly empty.― Sonja Yoerg, The Middle of Somewhere
            
My most memorable hikes can be classified as 'Shortcuts that Backfired'.―Edward Abbey, The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West

Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world.—John Muir

To walk in nature is to witness a thousand miracles.—Mary Davis

After a day’s walk, everything has twice its usual value.—G.M. Trevelyan

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.—Henry David Thoreau

Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence.—Hermann Buhl

When everything feels like an uphill struggle, Just think of the view from the top.—Anonymous

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than trees.—Henry David Thoreau
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God is discovered entirely through creation – the brilliance of a sunset, the powerful roar of a waterfall, the symphony of sounds you hear in the heart of the forest, or the vastness of space and its countless stars.—Benjamin Sullivan

This inheritance of covetousness is the very essence of sin, and the only thing that can touch it is the atonement of our Lord Jesus Christ.—Oswald Chambers in The Moral Foundations of Life 252

What have I more to do, but to commit myself to thee for both; leaving it to thee to choose mine inheritance, and to order my affairs for me, while all my business is to serve thee, and all my delight to praise thee.—P. Doddridge in Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul

If faith cannot see a pardon in the promise, then hope cannot look for salvation.  If faith cannot lay claim to sonship, then hope will not wait for the inheritance.—William Gurnall in The Christian in Complete Armour

The inheritance was the engine of survival, passed from father to son, an economic pact between generations. To lose one’s inheritance was to pilfer for survival, to become someone’s slave.― Russell D. Moore, Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches

Inheritance is natural phenomena. Every tree in every forest is first expected to productively utilize the inheritance it receives from prior generations of trees and other life forms. And every tree in every forest is expected to provide an inheritance of new substance created through growth for subsequent generations of trees and other life forms. In ecological systems, there is a correlation between inheritance and growth, each facilitating the other.― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

Ignorance is inherited; enlightenment is found.― Paul Bamikole, Trees by the river

We receive our inheritance the day we learn a skill from a parent. How we use that skill will determine how far we go!― Andrew-Knox B Kaniki

But inheritance doesn't come from the past. Inheritance is the place we are given in the present in a world structured to care for the existence of some and not of others.― Elizabeth A. Povinelli, The Inheritance

“Inheritance is the economics of the graveyard.― Mark Romel, Social Capitalism: Against Mammonism

In some cases, inheritance is nothing but an act of paying one’s dues with a credit card.― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, F for Philosopher: A Collection of Funny Yet Profound Aphorisms

Don't hide your inheritance when it shows off your greed to everyone.― Anthony T. Hincks

Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you’ll make a difference.—Arie Pencovici
            
Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After 22 years of child-raising, they are unemployed.—Erma Bombeck
            
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that "individuality" is the key to success.―Robert Orben
            
I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.―Elisabeth Kubler-Ross