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God
can dream a bigger dream for you than you
can dream for yourself, and your role on Earth is
to attach yourself to that divine force and
let yourself be released to it.
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When I
remember that the primary purpose of life is to feel and
appreciate
the presence of God, to live from a state of
love and compassion,
and to be of service to others, then
instantly, like magic, I begin to feel at peace.
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Ecclesiastes names thee the Almighty. Maccabees
names thee Creator; the epistle to the Ephesians names
thee Liberty. . . the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth; John names thee Light; the Book of Kings names thee Lord;
Exodus calls thee Providence; Leviticus, Holiness; Esdras,
Justice; Creation calls thee God; Man names thee Father; but Solomon names thee Compassion, and that is the most
beautiful of all thy names.
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God conceived the world,--that was
poetry;
He formed it,--that was sculpture;
He colored it,--that was painting;
He people it with living beings,
--that was the grand,
divine, eternal drama.
Charlotte Cushman
The kingdom of God is within
you.
Luke 17:21
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Human experience is
already experience of God.
Our journey on earth is
already a journey to heaven.
Seeing a sunrise or a
flower is already seeing God.
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Faith strips the mask from the world and
reveals God in everything.
It makes nothing
impossible and renders meaningless such words
as anxiety,
danger, and fear, so that the believer goes through life
calmly and peacefully, with profound joy--like a child,
hand in hand with his or her mother.
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When we lose God,
it is not
God who is lost.
Anon |
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God is to me that
creative Force, behind and
in the universe, who manifests
Himself as energy,
as life, as order, as beauty, as
thought,
as conscience, as love.
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Your
mind cannot possibly understand God. Your heart
already knows.
Minds were designed for carrying
out
the orders of the heart.
Emmanuel |
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Every
conjecture we can form with regard to
the works of God
has as little probability
as the conjectures of a child
with regard to
the works of an adult.
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Deep down in every man,
woman, and child, is the fundamental idea of God.
It may
be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other
things,
but in some form or other it is there. For faith
in a Power greater than ourselves,
and miraculous
demonstrations of that power in human lives,
are facts as
old as man himself.
Alcoholics Anonymous |
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God speaks to all individuals
through
what happens to them moment by moment.
J.P. DeCaussade |
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It's only by forgetting
yourself that you draw near to God.
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We
mustn't reserve communing with God just for morning and
evening prayers,
or for weekly worship service, or for
when we feel burdened. The goal is
to realize that every
moment is a meditation. Allow yourself to marvel
at the
wonder of God's work all around us. Throughout your day,
let the sun,
a tree, a piece of fruit remind you that
everything you could ever want has been provided and can
be found right here on earth. While changing the baby's
diaper,
give thanks for the miracle of creation you hold
in your hands. . . .
The moment you begin to consider God
first in everything you do,
the world around you softens
and your life becomes easier.
You'll feel healthier,
happier and at peace with yourself.
Susan L. Taylor |
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The 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 |
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If
we are completely honest with ourselves we know deep down in our
hearts
that the usual goals and strivings of self-sufficiency and
self-fulfillment we have
are not our real destiny. We sense an
uneasiness with the common,
ordinary life of delights and pleasures,
and begin to hear this quiet voice
from the soul's depths, a
whispering of a more meaningful, richer life.
We are in essence
seeking God and feel that He is indeed drawing us to Him.
When
we respond, it is to God that we are responding.
Clara
M. Matheson
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The deepest need of humans is
not food and clothing and shelter,
important as they are. It is
God. We have mistaken the nature of poverty,
and thought it was
economic poverty.
No, it is poverty of the soul, deprivation of
God's recreating, loving peace.
Thomas R.
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We have all of
us free access to all that is great, and good, and happy, and carry
within ourselves
a key to all the treasures that heaven has to bestow
upon us. We starve in the midst of plenty,
groan under
infirmities, with the remedy in our own hand; live and die without
knowing
and feeling anything of the One only God, whilst we have it in
our power to know and enjoy it
in as great a reality as we know and
feel the power of this world over us; for Heaven is
as near to our
souls as this world is to our bodies; and we are created,
we are
redeemed, to have our conversation in it.
William
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God
is in everyone and everything. When we save each other or guide
each other or just love each other, we are doing God's work. So
God dresses
in Eskimo clothing or other disguises, and responds to us
whether or not
we are aware enough to hear, see, or feel God's loving
guidance.
Everything is a tool of God, from DNA to the weather.
Bernie
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God
is bigger than any problem.
God in you is greater than any difficulty that you have
to meet.
God cares for you more than it is possible for any human
being to realize.
God can help you in proportion to the degree in which you
worship Him.
You worship God by really putting your trust in him
instead of in outer
conditions, or in fear, or in depression, or in seeming
dangers, and so forth.
You worship God by recognizing His presence everywhere,
in all people and conditions that you meet; and by
praying regularly.
You pray well when you pray with joy.
Emmet Fox |
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You
must remember that our God has all knowledge and all wisdom,
and that therefore it is very possible He may guide you into paths
wherein He knows great blessings are awaiting you, but which,
to the shortsighted human eyes around you, seem sure to result in
confusion and loss.
Hannah
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There
is in all our strivings a profound homesickness for God.
When we touch another we touch God.
When we look at a flower, its radiance, its fragrance, its stillness
is another moment's experience
of something deeper within. When
we hold a baby, when we hear extraordinary music,
when we look into the eyes of a great saint, what draws us is that
deep homesickness
for our true nature, for the peace and healing that is our birthright.
This homesickness for God directs us toward the healing we took birth
for.
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God’s
love is a gift that can make you forget yourself at times.
The Scottish writer George MacDonald said, “It is the heart
that is not yet sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in his
presence.”
God loves us as we are
right now! That’s one
of the things I’m
most grateful for. I love
the freedom to be myself in God.
I pray
that a year from now, five years from now, I will be a godlier woman,
but I know God won’t love me any more than he does right this
minute.
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God never gives up on us no matter how hard we
try to get
ourselves loose. God does
not let go. That
doesn’t mean
he controls everything we do. It
doesn’t mean he puts a bridle
on us and leads us by the nose. He gives each one of us free will
and common sense and a spirit that can communicate with his.
When we go through afflictions, he allows us to choose our response.
But no matter what our response may be, he sticks around to the
bitter end.
Barbara Johnson |
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All
people are special, and all moments are golden.
There is no person
and there is no time more special than another.
Many people
choose to believe that God communicates in special ways
and only with special people.
This removes the mass of the people
from responsibility for hearing God’s message, much less receiving
it
(which is another matter), and allows them to take
someone else’s word for everything.
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There
is nothing you need to do
to make yourself more acceptable
to God.
You don’t have to work harder,
nor do you need to change the kind
of work you do.
You don’t have to give
more money to charitable organizations.
The reality is, God doesn’t want you
to give anyone anything if you only
do it to impress God!
God does not
love you or find you acceptable because
of anything that you do.
God loves
you and accepts you because
you are a part of God.
Iyanla Vanzant |
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Once
one has encountered God everything is changed.
One does not lead a charmed life—but it is amazing
how charming the commonplace can become.
One still
has heavy work to do but one works with assurance
and poise.
One still has temptations to meet but
they have been robbed of most of their power.
One runs into adversity but the inner certainty remains.
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