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God is not what you imagine
or what you think you understand.
If you understand you have failed.
- Saint Augustine
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine
He that is jealous is not in love.
- Saint Augustine
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree -
after a year and a thousand miles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love,
of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God -
the rest will be given.
- Mother Teresa
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
Death is nothing else but going home to God,
the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
- Mother Teresa
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
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself.
Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor
for helping us to love God better because of them.
- Mother Teresa
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.
I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
- Mother Teresa
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
I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
to the third and fourth generations.
- Exodus 20:5
I have been all things unholy.
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Not paying a just wage, not giving work,
only because one is looking at the bottom line,
at the budget of the company, seeking only profit -
that is against God.
- Pope Francis
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
my God, my strength, in whom I will trust.
- Psalm 18:2
My concern is not whether God is on our side;
my greatest concern is to be on God's side,
for God is always right.
- Abraham Lincoln
God has given us two hands, one to receive with
and the other to give with.
- Billy Graham
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say.
Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful:
he makes saints out of sinners.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
- Psalm 16:1
Faith is a living and unshakable confidence,
a belief in the grace of God so assured that
a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.
- Martin Luther
One who has any faith in God
should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry,
and one who has any faith in God
should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
This is what the Lord asks of you: only this,
to act justly, to love tenderly,
and to walk humbly with your God.
- Micah 6:8
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The great gift of Easter is hope -
Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God,
in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love,
which nothing can shake.
- Basil C. Hume
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures
from the shelter of compassion and pity,
you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
- St. Francis of Assisi
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
- Albert Einstein
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service,
to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
- St. Francis of Assisi
When you read God's Word, you must
constantly be saying to yourself,
"It is talking to me, and about me."
- Soren Kierkegaard
God sometimes does try to the uttermost
those whom he wishes to bless.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is the quality of our work which will please God
and not the quantity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
For with God all things are possible.
- The Bible
Only he can take great resolves who has
indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
- Billy Graham
Your worst days are never so bad
that you are beyond the reach of God's grace.
And your best days are never so good
that you are beyond the need of God's grace.
- Anonymous
You're just left with yourself all the time,
whatever you do anyway.
You've got to get down to your
own God in your own temple.
It's all down to you, mate.
- John Lennon
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
Look In The Mirror to See The Face Of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I know, to banish anger altogether
from one's breast is a difficult task.
It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort.
It can be done only by God's grace.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Today is my day to see in myself the face of god.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
The World Runs On God's Rules, and On God's Time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Your life within God's arms,
Your dance within God's arms,
Is already Perfect!
- Hafiz
Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
There is always the danger that we may
just do the work for the sake of the work.
This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in -
that we do it to God, to Christ,
and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
- Mother Teresa
God has no religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
God is natural - not supernatural.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each one of us is an outlet to God
and an inlet to God.
- Ernest Holmes
Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
- Ram Dass
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
- Mother Teresa
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
God is equally available to all people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Look now into the still waters
of the reflecting pool
and behold the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Inhale, and God approaches you.
Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you.
Exhale, and you approach God.
Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.
- Krishnamacharya
God gives some more than others
because some accept more than others.
- Ernest Holmes
God enters by a private door into each individual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To have a friendship with God,
all I really have to do is have
a friendship with my Self.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized,
nor are there even words.
It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
- Peace Pilgrim
Shine your Light of God wherever you see darkness.
- 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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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