If my life is any example, the work that youth workers are doing is very, very important. It tends to get marginalized in the church or seen as less important than being a senior minister in a large, prosperous congregation;… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Let’s not forget that American democracy started with ‘We the People’ agreeing to work hard to create ‘a more perfect union.’ We’ve lost the idea that politics begins at home with what happens in families, in neighborhoods, in classrooms, in… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“The God I know is the source of reality, rather than morality; the source of 'what is' rather than the source of 'what ought… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
Opposing what's wrong is a halfway measure at best. A rebel must also have a vision for something better, a strategy for moving toward… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
If my life is any example, the work that youth workers are doing is very, very important. It tends to get marginalized in the… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
“Formation may be the best name for what happens in a circle of trust, because the word refers, historically, to soul work done in… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
Don't let anyone or anything rob you of the beauty and meaning at the heart of life. It's your birthright gift. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
“Citizenship is a way of being in the world rooted in the knowledge that I am a member of a vast community of human… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
I think the church needs to be much more countercultural than that and invite people into slowing down, into a "Be-still-and-know-that-I-am-God" mindset. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
My high school, like most high schools, had a pretty rigid stratification system. Kids were clustered into groups - the studious ones, the athletes,… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if resurrection were… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
It is because as we are, our hearts are closed, and we cannot place the holy words in our hearts. So we place them… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
