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God has given us two hands, one to receive with
and the other to give with.
- Billy Graham
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Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
- Billy Graham
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
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
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
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
To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree -
after a year and a thousand miles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Non-violence requires a double faith,
faith in God and also faith in man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become 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
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 I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
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
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
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
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
We are most like God when we forgive.
- Anonymous
God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
When God closes a door, he opens a window.
- Anonymous
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
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Whenever I look at a human face,
I say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
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
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
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 Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God
who is sending a love letter to the world.
- Mother Teresa
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
Whenever I look in the mirror,
I say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
Your worst days are never so bad
that you are beyond the reach of God's grace.
And your best days are never so good
that you are beyond the need of God's grace.
- Anonymous
Only he can take great resolves who has
indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser,
and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
- John Lennon
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity,
for in prosperity we forget God.
- Dwight L. Moody
God is not what you imagine
or what you think you understand.
If you understand you have failed.
- Saint Augustine
The highest God and the innermost God is one God.
- Ernest Holmes
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
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking
only to learn that it is God shaking them.
- Charles West
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
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
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
- Mother Teresa
Indifferent to whether your mood is grumpy or cheerful,
Nature always sings her passionate song of joyful celebration.
You can never stop the happy song of life,
so join the celebration -
sing along, dance, make love,
smile your biggest smile, and cheer on God's music.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
- Albert Einstein
I left the "eye for an eye" God
when I walked out of Bible school,
but God Within is a daily part of my personal experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God gives some more than others
because some accept more than others.
- Ernest Holmes
ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth
who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.
- Ernest Holmes
Start living now.
Stop saving the good china
for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love
until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
Your talent is God's gift to you.
- Leo Buscaglia
Everything is God
- don Miguel Ruiz
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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