“We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.”

“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God….. We must not….. assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.”

“We have to place ourselves in the right environment that helps us and allows us to become the greatest versions of ourselves.”

“Why should we become like you? We pride ourselves on not being like you.”

“If we as people allow ourselves to be caught up in either PRIDE or SHAME, we severely limit the scope of what we are capable of doing and what we are capable of of becoming in this life.”

“We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.”

“We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.”

“In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility”

“Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.”

“We should not allow ourselves, individually or our ethnic communities to become easy tools for politics of race that will continue to segregate us mentally and emotionally.”