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God is not what you imagine
or what you think you understand.
If you understand you have failed.
- Saint Augustine
Related topics: Spiritual Inspirational Wisdom
Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine
He that is jealous is not in love.
- Saint Augustine
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a hand
and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous
Your talent is God's gift to you.
- Leo Buscaglia
God is natural - not supernatural.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are within God.
God is within you.
- Peace Pilgrim
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like any man,
I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people, will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
- Ram Dass
Start living now.
Stop saving the good china
for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love
until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
You are the Face of God
- Karen Drucker
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
We are most like God when we forgive.
- Anonymous
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
When God closes a door, he opens a window.
- Anonymous
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves,
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
Everything is God
- don Miguel Ruiz
God is in, through, around and for us.
- Ernest Holmes
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
We see God face to face every hour,
and know the savor of Nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
- Mother Teresa
From the solemn gloom of the temple
children run out to sit in the dust,
God watches them play and forgets the priest.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
Let Go, Let God.
- Anonymous
Look In The Mirror to See The Face Of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
God has no religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree -
after a year and a thousand miles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is my day to see in myself the face of god.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
Where there is unconditional love,
there is no room for unhappiness.
Whenever I look in the mirror today,
I will say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God gives some more than others
because some accept more than others.
- Ernest Holmes
God is a verb, not a noun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
The will of God will never take you
to where the grace of God will not protect you.
- Anonymous
Whenever God wakes in us, our thinking
becomes clear - nothing is missing.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- Albert Einstein
We live in a spiritual Universe.
God is in, through, around and for us.
- Ernest Holmes
Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras
God helps them that help themselves.
- Algernon Sidney
A wise one said, "We are most like God when we forgive."
It is easy for us to blame, but hard for us to forgive.
Yet that is what we are called upon to do -
to forgive everyone for everything.
And the reward?
In this life, the reward for forgiveness
is your own happiness.
Unconditional universal forgiveness is
the key to your own happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
Today is my day to see myself as the face of god:
my mind sparks, and my soul sparkles;
my peace is counterpoint to the clamor of life;
I am a magnificent gift to the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As your spirit soars throughout
the vast Cathedral of Your Being,
look now into the still waters
of the reflecting pool and behold the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May God grant you always...
A sunbeam to warm you,
a moonbeam to charm you,
a sheltering Angel so nothing can harm you.
Laughter to you.
Faithful friends near you.
And whenever you pray,
Heaven to hear you.
- Irish Blessing
Your own body is a manifestation of God,
and if you honor your body everything will change for you
- don Miguel Ruiz
Our creator is the same and never changes
despite the names given Him by people here
and in all parts of the world.
Even if we gave Him no name at all,
He would still be there, within us,
waiting to give us good on this earth.
- George Washington Carver
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before,
but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
- Ram Dass
Look now into the still waters
of the reflecting pool
and behold the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want.
It is the belief that God will do what is right.
- Max Lucado
God has entrusted me with myself.
- Epictetus
We need to find God, and he cannot
be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass-
grows in silence; see the stars,
the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Shine your Light of God wherever you see darkness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth
who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.
- Ernest Holmes
Count your blessings. Once you realize
how valuable you are and how much you have going for you,
the smiles will return, the sun will break out,
the music will play, and you will finally
be able to move forward the life that God intended
for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
- Og Mandino
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