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If God listened to the prayers of men,
all men would quickly have perished:
for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
- Epicurus
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It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Skillful pilots gain their reputation
from storms and tempest.
- Epicurus
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
What we enjoy constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
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
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
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- 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
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
Stupidity is also a gift of God,
but one mustn't misuse it.
- Pope John Paul II
I am prepared to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal
of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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
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
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
There are people in the world so hungry,
that God cannot appear to them
except in the form of bread.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
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
God is equally available to all people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories
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 World Runs On God's Rules, and On God's Time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever God wakes in us, our thinking
becomes clear - nothing is missing.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
We live in a spiritual Universe.
God is in, through, around and for us.
- Ernest Holmes
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 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
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized,
nor are there even words.
It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
- Peace Pilgrim
Each one of us is an outlet to God
and an inlet to God.
- Ernest Holmes
Shine your Light of God wherever you see darkness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God Loves an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
So does Your Mother.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful,
for beauty is God's handwriting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highest God and the innermost God is one God.
- Ernest Holmes
God is at play,
I am his modeling clay.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- Albert Einstein
You are within God.
God is within you.
- Peace Pilgrim
Non-violence requires a double faith,
faith in God and also faith in man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When the universal sacraments of compassion and joy
fill the vast cathedral of our being,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God is a metaphor for that which transcends
all levels of intellectual thought.
It's as simple as that.
- Joseph Campbell
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
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God
who is sending a love letter to the world.
- Mother Teresa
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- 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
Most people are more skilled at begging God than at thanking God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree -
after a year and a thousand miles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays
- Soren Kierkegaard
ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth
who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.
- Ernest Holmes
The inherent nature of God
is not changed by our individual beliefs,
our religious institutions,
or our communal traditions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Today is my day to see in myself the face of god.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
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