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Welcome to these Devout Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
In the uttermost meaning of the words,
thought is devout, and devotion is thought.
Deep calls unto deep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Related topics: Wisdom
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highest art is always the most religious,
and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
- Abraham Lincoln
God sometimes does try to the uttermost
those whom he wishes to bless.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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)
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
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
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
Non-violence requires a double faith,
faith in God and also faith in man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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 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
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
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree -
after a year and a thousand miles.
- 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
Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays
- Soren Kierkegaard
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- 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 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
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
Whenever I look in the mirror,
I say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- 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
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
God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
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
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
When God closes a door, he opens a window.
- 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
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
A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
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
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
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God does not play dice.
- Albert Einstein
The inherent nature of God
is not changed by our individual beliefs,
our religious institutions,
or our communal traditions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thank you, God, for this good life
and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
- Garrison Keillor
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say
there are twenty gods or no God.
- Thomas Jefferson
Everything is God
- don Miguel Ruiz
He who is persistent will realize God.
So try your best to make meditation
a regular experience in your life.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Shine your Light of God wherever you see darkness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Believe that none of the effort you put
into coming closer to God is ever wasted -
even if in the end you don't achieve
what you are striving for.
- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure about you.
We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
- Marianne Williamson
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry,
and one who has any faith in God
should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There are people in the world so hungry,
that God cannot appear to them
except in the form of bread.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
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
Each one of us is an outlet to God
and an inlet to God.
- Ernest Holmes
I try to give to the poor people for love
what the rich could get for money.
No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds;
yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
- Mother Teresa
Difficulties show men what they are.
In case of any difficulty,
remember that God has pitted you
against a rough antagonist
that you may be a conqueror,
and this cannot be without toil.
- Epictetus
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
Optimism is the harmony between man's spirit
and of God pronouncing His works good.
- Helen Keller
When you read God's Word, you must
constantly be saying to yourself,
"It is talking to me, and about me."
- Soren Kierkegaard
God is in, through, around and for us.
- Ernest Holmes
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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