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Welcome to these Constricted Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
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
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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)
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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
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
To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree -
after a year and a thousand miles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays
- Soren Kierkegaard
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
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
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras
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
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
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
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
Non-violence requires a double faith,
faith in God and also faith in man.
- 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
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
We are most like God when we forgive.
- Anonymous
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
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
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
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
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
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God
who is sending a love letter to the world.
- Mother Teresa
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
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
When God closes a door, he opens a window.
- Anonymous
Whenever I look in the mirror,
I say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
Whenever I look at a human face,
I say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Morality is of the highest importance -
but for us, not for God.
- Albert Einstein
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- Albert Einstein
A vow is a purely religious act
which cannot be taken in a fit of passion.
It can be taken only with a mind purified
and composed and with God as witness.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The cathedral of my God of no church
is the entirety of the universe.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We see God face to face every hour,
and know the savor of Nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Every creature is a word of God.
- Meister Eckhart
See God in every person, place, and thing,
and all will be well in your world.
- Louise L. Hay
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes
the objects of his creation
and is but a reflection of human frailty.
- Albert Einstein
Know that rainbows and butterflies are God's gift to your joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God is at play,
I am his modeling clay.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The World Runs On God's Rules, and On God's Time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God is equally available to all people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God is not what you imagine
or what you think you understand.
If you understand you have failed.
- Saint Augustine
ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth
who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.
- Ernest Holmes
Before the throne of the Almighty,
man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions.
For God alone reads our hearts.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Everything is God
- don Miguel Ruiz
God helps them that help themselves.
- Algernon Sidney
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
God has entrusted me with myself.
- Epictetus
As your spirit soars throughout
the vast Cathedral of Your Being,
look now into the still waters
of the reflecting pool and behold the face of God.
- 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
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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