Yesterday is history tomorrow is a mystery today is God's gift that's why we call it the present.
Joan RiversGod gave us the gift of life, it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
VoltaireYou don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you as you are to them.
Desmond TutuGod helps those who help themselves.
Benjamin FranklinGod waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.
Rabindranath TagoreWhere there is FAITH there is LOVE, Where there is LOVE, there is PEACE, Where there is PEACE, there is GOD, Where there is GOD, there is BLISS.
Sai BabaI thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.
John WatersGod loves to help him who strives to help himself.
AeschylusGod created war so that Americans would learn geography.
Mark TwainI believe that each of us comes from the creator trailing wisps of glory.
Maya AngelouLet no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
Mother TeresaWhen you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
Paulo CoelhoI know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
Mother TeresaWithout a god life is only a matter of opinion.
Douglas AdamsWhatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires and animates is something celestial, divine and consequently imperishable.
AristotleI am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
Mother TeresaThe person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Kahlil GibranGod doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
Mother TeresaDreams are the language of God.
Paulo CoelhoGod lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.
Mahatma GandhiGod seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.
Rabindranath TagoreMan suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Alan WattsBizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.
Kurt VonnegutTo find God, you must welcome everything.
Rabindranath TagoreDo you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.
Mother TeresaEach one prays to God according to his own light.
Mahatma GandhiHe who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
AeschylusIt is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark TwainI am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
Charlie ChaplinI can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
Helen KellerWhen the solution is simple God is answering.
Albert EinsteinMan - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Mark TwainWhen the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar WildeGod works wonders now and then, Behold a lawyer an honest man.
Benjamin FranklinWhite... is not a mere absence of colour, it is a shining and affirmative thing as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours, but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
Gilbert K. ChestertonYour idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
Rabindranath TagoreBut for my faith in God I should have been a raving maniac.
Mahatma GandhiI existed from all eternity and behold, I am here, and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
Kahlil GibranLet us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
Mother TeresaIt's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
Helen KellerI sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar WildeBeauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Saint AugustineEvery child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath TagoreWe need to find God and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence, see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother TeresaOf the twenty-four hours a day, use six for earning and spending, six for contemplation of God, six of sleep, and six for service to others.
Sai BabaAs a child of God I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
Abdul KalamI cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Friedrich NietzscheGive food to the hungry, water to the thirsty and clothes to the naked. Then God will be pleased.
Sai BabaOnly he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Mahatma GandhiOne's own religion is, after all, a matter between oneself and one's Maker, and no one else's.
Mahatma GandhiDesire plus life is man, Life minus desire is God.
Sai BabaGod cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. LewisGod is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma GandhiWhere love is there God is also.
Mahatma GandhiMy religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
Mahatma GandhiI think at a child's birth if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
Eleanor RooseveltEducation must remove hatred between the pilgrims on the various roads to God. There is only one God, one Goal, one Law, one Truth, one Religion, and one Reason.
Sai BabaEvery being in the universe has the potentiality of transcending the senses. Even the little worm will one day transcend the senses and reach God. No life will be a failure. There is no such thing as failure in the universe.
Sai BabaI would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
Friedrich NietzscheGod judged it better to bring good out of evil, than to suffer no evil to exist.
Saint AugustineThank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not.
James Russell LowellIt is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.
J. K. RowlingIgnorance is the curse of God, knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William ShakespeareI've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
Vivien LeighGain and loss, birth and death are in the hands of God.
Sai BabaZen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Alan WattsThat we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
Blaise PascalYou may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.
C. S. LewisThere is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
C. S. LewisJesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I’ve just discovered that I’m God,’ they’ll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations, at last you found out.
Alan WattsA dish fit for the gods.
William ShakespeareI am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.
Rabindranath TagoreIt is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.
Mother TeresaWe cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefore, who are we to condemn anybody?
Mother TeresaGod didn't call me to be successful, He called me to be faithful.
Mother TeresaPrayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.
Mother TeresaGod made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
Kahlil GibranOur life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Mother TeresaThat deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe forms my idea of God.
Albert EinsteinMen always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself, the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle, or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Gilbert K. ChestertonHe that takes truth for his guide and duty for his end may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
Blaise PascalI will far rather see the race of man extinct, than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Mahatma GandhiThough we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
Mahatma GandhiThe knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I we are one in knowledge.
Meister EckhartIf God had intended us not to masturbate he would've made our arms shorter.
George CarlinWhen God Himself comes down to serve man He will indeed be pleased if you too serve man.
Sai BabaThe Divine pervades everything in the Universe. This may not be understood by everyone. Some may not agree that the Divine is Omnipresent. But whether they accept this fact or not the truth is evidence of the presence of God can be found wherever one turns.
Sai BabaCharity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
Simone WeilGod gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
James Matthew BarrieEmploy yourself usefully. Be like a trustee holding on trust on behalf of God for the purpose which He likes and approves.
Sai BabaPrayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Saint Teresa of AvilaJust as the soul fills the body so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body so God gives food to the world.
Marcus Tullius CiceroTake God for your spouse and friend and walk with Him continually and you will not sin will learn to love and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.
Saint Teresa of AvilaPERFORM all acts with as much love as you would offer God. In Truth you eat for the satisfaction of the I in you and dress up to please the self-same I . The husband loves his wife for the sake of the I . And who is this I that is persistently inherent in everyone? It is God Himself.
Sai BabaOut of chaos God made a world and out of high passions comes a people.
Lord ByronAll God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
Meister EckhartTo achieve release man kneels before a million Gods in frantic pain. If he but blasts the ego within the Goal is reached he is freed indeed!
Sai BabaGod is the mother and father of the world. Our parents are the mother and father of this body.
Sai BabaWe worship an awesome God in the Blue States and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
Barack ObamaEvery woman and every man is the mother of God when we carry Jesus in our heart and body through a divine love and a pure sincere conscience. We give birth to Him through a holy activity which must shine as an example before others.
Francis of AssisiThe goal is to live with godlike composure on the full rush of energy like Dionysus riding the leopard without being torn to pieces.
Joseph CampbellGod is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Joseph CampbellYou may call God love you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
Meister EckhartIf there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its glories and He decides to deliver a message to humanity, He will not use as His messenger a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle.
Dave BarryMan is born passionate of body but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
Lord Byron