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My God, this is a hell of a job. I have no trouble with my enemies.
I can take care of my enemies all right.
But my damn friends, my goddamn friends.
They're the ones that keep me walking the floor at night.
- Warren G. Harding
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Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
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- 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
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
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
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
Because we believe that our ethnic group,
our society, our political party, our God,
is better than your God, we kill each other.
- Neale Donald Walsch
When one gets angry, it is always angry AT someone -
perhaps a friend or spouse, perhaps a stranger,
perhaps the nameless "they" - "those people at the bank wronged me,"
perhaps God, or perhaps oneself.
In any case, when one gets angry,
they want to find someone to be "responsible" for what happened.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are people in the world so hungry,
that God cannot appear to them
except in the form of bread.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I am prepared to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal
of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill
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
I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person
to reconcile himself to the idea that
after all God will not help him
- H. L. Mencken
Stupidity is also a gift of God,
but one mustn't misuse it.
- Pope John Paul II
The World Runs On God's Rules, and On God's Time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
The will of God will never take you
to where the grace of God will not protect you.
- 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
Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras
God is equally available to all people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
The highest God and the innermost God is one God.
- Ernest Holmes
The manifest universe is the body of God ...
all people are incarnations of the One Spirit.
- Ernest Holmes
God enters by a private door into each individual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
- Mother Teresa
Your own body is a manifestation of God,
and if you honor your body everything will change for you
- don Miguel Ruiz
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking
only to learn that it is God shaking them.
- Charles West
God doesn't make junk.
- Anonymous
God is in, through, around and for us.
- Ernest Holmes
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
That deep emotional conviction of the presence
of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed
in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
- Albert Einstein
God has no religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
I can see, and that is why I can be happy,
in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.
I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
- Helen Keller
Don't seek God in temples.
He is close to you.
He is within you.
Only you should surrender to Him
and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
- Leo Tolstoy
Oh, if only God would give me some sign.
If He would just speak to me once. Anything.
One sentence. Two words. If He would just cough.
- the movie Love and Death
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
The inherent nature of God
is not changed by our individual beliefs,
our religious institutions,
or our communal traditions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Let Go, Let God.
- Anonymous
He who is persistent will realize God.
So try your best to make meditation
a regular experience in your life.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Most people are more skilled at begging God than at thanking 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
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
Your life within God's arms,
Your dance within God's arms,
Is already Perfect!
- Hafiz
When you find your path, you must not be afraid.
You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are
the tools God uses to show us the way.
- Paulo Coelho
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
Look now into the still waters
of the reflecting pool
and behold the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God gives some more than others
because some accept more than others.
- Ernest Holmes
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized,
nor are there even words.
It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
- Peace Pilgrim
When the universal sacraments of compassion and joy
fill the vast cathedral of our being,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are most like God when we forgive.
- Anonymous
Non-violence requires a double faith,
faith in God and also faith in man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Your talent is God's gift to you.
- Leo Buscaglia
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