3 December 2020 Samuel Butler He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
3 December 2020 Alan Watts In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
3 December 2020 Saint Teresa of Avila God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
3 December 2020 Ansel Adams Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
3 December 2020 Louis Farrakhan We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.
3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
3 December 2020 Andre Gide Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
3 December 2020 Karl Rahner Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
3 December 2020 Billy Graham God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
3 December 2020 e. e. cummings I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
3 December 2020 Plutarch It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief – the other contempt.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
3 December 2020 William Arthur Ward God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’
3 December 2020 George Bancroft Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
3 December 2020 Euripides God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
3 December 2020 Mariah Carey One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.
3 December 2020 Lenny Kravitz I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that’s beautiful.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
