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What does coffee and donuts have to do with God?
- the movie Simon Birch (1998)
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Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with.
It responds like a snail to our impatience,
then it races like a gazelle when you can't catch a breath.
- the movie Simon Birch
When someone you love dies,
you don't lose them all at once.
You lose them in pieces over time
- the movie Simon Birch
Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with..
- the movie Simon Birch
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have faith. I just need proof to back it up.
- the movie Simon Birch
You're already a bastard.
Might as well be an enlightened one.
- the movie Simon Birch
We all have our thorns. We, and Life, have our moments.
Life occurs before our morning coffee.
Life occurs in our bathrobe with our hair uncombed.
Bless and give thanks for All of Life - the bloom and the thorns.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If i had known... i would have lingered
over my coffee a little longer.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea;
but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
- Abraham Lincoln
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning,
as if supported by the rays of the sun,
a bird settled on the fire escape,
joy in the task of coffee,
joy accompanied me as I walked.
- Anais Nin
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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
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
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
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
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
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
Non-violence requires a double faith,
faith in God and also faith in man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree -
after a year and a thousand miles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
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
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
Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of 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
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
We are most like God when we forgive.
- Anonymous
Whenever I look at a human face,
I say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
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
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
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
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 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
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God
who is sending a love letter to the world.
- Mother Teresa
A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
Whenever I look in the mirror,
I say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
When God closes a door, he opens a window.
- Anonymous
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
To have a friendship with God,
all I really have to do is have
a friendship with my Self.
- Neale Donald Walsch
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
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
God is all there is - God includes everything,
all possibility and all action,
for Spirit is the invisible essence and substance of all form.
- Ernest Holmes
God is a verb, not a noun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Each of us holds a different image of God.
There are as many perspectives on
the nature of God as there are people.
However much any of us may choose to argue,
or to fight and kill, for our point of view,
the nature of God is an unanswerable question.
Perhaps there is a specific answer,
that we will never learn - in this lifetime.
Perhaps the nature of God is so complex and multifaceted
that each view of God describes an aspect of the complex whole.
Or perhaps the nature of God is actually defined by our beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
- Albert Einstein
God is a metaphor for that which transcends
all levels of intellectual thought.
It's as simple as that.
- Joseph Campbell
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful,
for beauty is God's handwriting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized,
nor are there even words.
It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
- Peace Pilgrim
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes
the objects of his creation
and is but a reflection of human frailty.
- Albert Einstein
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