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Every religion is true one way or another.
It is true when understood metaphorically.
But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors,
interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
- Joseph Campbell
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends
all levels of intellectual thought.
It's as simple as that.
- Joseph Campbell
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
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Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
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
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
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
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
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
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
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
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)
There are people in the world so hungry,
that God cannot appear to them
except in the form of bread.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Stupidity is also a gift of God,
but one mustn't misuse it.
- Pope John Paul II
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
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
I am prepared to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal
of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill
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
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder
and wind have passed will be the ultimate Word from God.
- Jim Elliot
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
The manifest universe is the body of God ...
all people are incarnations of the One Spirit.
- Ernest Holmes
God is, even though the whole world deny him.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras
God is in, through, around and for us.
- Ernest Holmes
The cathedral of my God of no church
is the entirety of the universe.
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Whenever I look in the mirror,
I say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
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Your own body is a manifestation of God,
and if you honor your body everything will change for you
- don Miguel Ruiz
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking
only to learn that it is God shaking them.
- Charles West
We must be ready to learn from one another,
not claiming that we alone possess all truth
and that somehow we have a corner on God.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Most people are more skilled at begging God than at thanking God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who is persistent will realize God.
So try your best to make meditation
a regular experience in your life.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
See God in every person, place, and thing,
and all will be well in your world.
- Louise L. Hay
Everything is God
- don Miguel Ruiz
I do not believe in the God of the theologians;
but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
- Thomas Edison
Look In The Mirror to See The Face Of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Today is my day to see in myself the face of god.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
There is One Infinite Mind,
which of necessity includes all that is,
whether it be the intelligence in man,
the life in the animal,
or the invisible Presence which is God.
- Ernest Holmes
Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
God's Spirit moves through us and the world
at a pace that can never be constricted
by any one religious paradigm.
I love that.
- Bono
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station,
through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
- George Washington Carver
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful,
for beauty is God's handwriting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anger is something that each one of us has experienced -
some of us only occasionally, some almost daily.
Can we eliminate all anger? Probably not.
We will always have expectations,
and those expectations will often be unmet.
Disappointment is the principle cause of anger.
When we are disappointed, we look for someone to blame.
Declaring someone to be at fault is the nature of anger.
Anger is always directed at someone -
possibly toward God or the non-specific "they,"
but at some animate entity.
- 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
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
- Ram Dass
When you have shut your doors, and darkened your room,
remember, never to say that you are alone,
for you are not alone, but God is within,
and your genius is within.
- Epictetus
The inherent nature of God
is not changed by our individual beliefs,
our religious institutions,
or our communal traditions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever I look at a human face,
I say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is,
he's stuck with so many bad actors
who don't know how to play funny.
- Garrison Keillor
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
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 solution is simple, God is answering.
- Albert Einstein
God doesn't make junk.
- 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
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