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
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
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
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
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
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
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
Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays
- Soren Kierkegaard
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
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
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
Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
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
We are most like God when we forgive.
- Anonymous
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
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 apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
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
Whenever I look at a human face,
I say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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 the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
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
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
Our 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 Teresa
Everything is God
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
Today is my day to see in myself the face of god.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
The inherent nature of God
is not changed by our individual beliefs,
our religious institutions,
or our communal traditions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
When 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 Coelho
God reigns when we take a liberal view.
- Henry David Thoreau
ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth
who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.
- Ernest Holmes
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- Albert Einstein
Shine your Light of God wherever you see darkness.
- 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
We see God face to face every hour,
and know the savor of Nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God doesn't make junk.
- Anonymous
Morality is of the highest importance -
but for us, not for God.
- Albert Einstein
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
- Mother Teresa
You are the Face of God
- Karen Drucker
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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