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Life doesn’t have a singular purpose and yet we try to pigeonhole this infinite gift by searching for a single meaning behind our existence. We hunger for meaning the way a starving man does food—convinced we will waste away without it. As though to experience what it is to be alive weren’t enough to justify drawing breath. Life is a multi-layered practice in exploration, self-definition, connection, and realization. The greatest challenge presented to us as human beings is to allow the infinite to be infinite; to accept that we will always be the student never the teacher, and allow the truths we’ve gathered to evolve because what we seek to understand is a living thing and is in a perpetual state of change. Humanity’s progression of understanding is open-ended. Anyone who professes mastery only shows their ignorance of the infinite procession of enlightenment of which they are a part. Each of us get to add a line into the coverless tome of understanding, which has no beginning and no end.
— L.M. Browning
Question everything—no matter how beloved, or how long-held, or how exalted—without apology. Only those who build their world upon lies need fear an inquisitive mind. The truth will remain, even after a storm of doubt and revolution has washed over it. Only illusions need be protected. The truth need not be defended; it existed before us and will continue to exist after us.
— L.M. Browning, Seasons of Contemplation: A Book of Midnight Meditations
Evil demons dwelling in underworlds, Gods sitting on-high, angels battling and protecting. We have become so wrapped up in these stories, and in the in-fighting between the different religions, that the reality of the matter has gone unseen and unresolved. We—humanity—must move out of this adolescence, put down the fairy tales, and take responsibility for our actions. There is no devil to blame, and there is no God to plead to. There is simply you and the choices you make each day—choices that will either make you a force of good in this world or an ill-presence. People are the evil in this world, and likewise we are the divine. “Evil”—all that is detrimental to humanity—has come about as a result of poor choices and, by the same hand, the divine—the immortal goodness—endures as a result of loving, compassionate choices. Heaven is created here—on this earth—by a community of compassionate people, and Hell is created here—on this earth—by a community of greedy, self-centered, apathetic people. Our small choices define the greater picture.
— L.M. Browning
Belief acts as a temporary bridge when we are trying to accept something that seems incomprehensible. We use belief and simply accept the workings we cannot understand until the time comes when at last we comprehend.
— L.M. Browning, Seasons of Contemplation: A Book of Midnight Meditations
You ruin is your rebellion against God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The arm of God is never too short to save us.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
O God make us your people. Be our God!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Please God, let your face shine in glory on us.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The Truth of God is taught by the Holy Spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is suffering Love is the desire to see unnecessary suffering amelioratedTruth is the handmaiden of loveDialogue is the pathway to truth Humility is recognition of personal insufficiency and the willingness to learn To learn is to die voluntarily and be born again, in great ways and smallSo speech must be untrammeled So that dialogue can take placeSo that we can all humbly learn So that truth can serve loveSo that suffering can be amelioratedSo that we can all stumble forward to the Kingdom of God
— Jordan B. Peterson
The glory of God is our rear guard.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Those who had fought for what they called the revolution maintained a great pride: the pride of being on the correct side of the front lines. Ten or twelve years later (around the time of our story) the front lines began to melt away, and with them the correct side. No wonder the former supporters of the revolution feel cheated and are quick to seek substitute fronts; thanks to religion they can (in their role as atheists struggling against believers) stand again on the correct side and retain their habitual and precious sense of their own superiority.But to tell the truth, the substitute front was also useful to others, and it will perhaps not be too premature to disclose that Alice was one of them. Just as the directress wanted to be on the correct side, Alice wanted to be on the opposite side. During the revolution they had nationalized her papa's shop, and Alice hated those who had done this to him. But how should she show her hatred? Perhaps by taking a knife and avenging her father? But this sort of thing is not the custom in Bohemia. Alice had a better means for expressing her opposition: she began to believe in God.
— Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves
He wounds but he heals.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The truth speaks for itself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The love of God encompasses us.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What does the Lord God requires of us:To love what is good.To do justice.To do what is right.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God of mercy!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God of peace!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God of hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Ah God! What a loving father you are!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Are we eager to know the ways of God?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The Repairer is a Restorer.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you want to find God have a look around you. He's in everything you see, smell, taste, feel, touch and believe.If he wasn't, he wouldn't be God.
— Anthony T.Hincks
Oh God, teach us thy truth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Please God, be merciful to me!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Eternity to eternity , God is God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The gift of God is grace.The grace of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The grace of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The gift of God is grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A servant of the Lord , loves God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Everlasting God!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith in Christ Jesus is the grace of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My parents didn't raise me to ask God for blessings or benefits. For guidance, yes. For the strength to do the right thing, yes. Not for a winning lottery number, not for love or health, or happiness. Prayer is not a gimme list; God isn't Santa Claus.
— Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy
As I silently rub the drops of blood on the wall, I can only find the right words when I think of that merciful and just God who is so far away, and yet so close.
— Lin Zhao
Too scared to fightToo afraid to open my eyesToo small to stand up for myselfToo awake to fight for my dreamsGod please teach me to be brave So that I can brave defeat
— Evy Michaels
God is my peace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is my security.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is my spiritual Father.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is my heavenly Father.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is my King.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is my counselor .
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is my Sovereign Lord.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is my joy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is my everlasting Father.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is my Wonderful Counselor.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The righteous God promotes the cause of righteousness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Whoever gains good understanding, keeps God's commandment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith in God is a possibility.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Believe in God is the beauty of being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is my fortress.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is my refuge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is better to hide under the shadow of the righteousness of Almighty God than seek refuge in shelter of sins.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is my helper.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God reigns from the deepest depths to the highest heights.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We perish because we fail to pray to God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is Maker of heaven and earth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is the Maker of heaven and earth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is King of kings.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is the Lord of lords.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is the heavenly father.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The garden of God is full of ripen fruits.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Only the living souls can praise the living God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith is holy fear of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Holy fear of God is to depart from evil.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I recovered from every shock of life's despair because God was merciful enough to restore me .
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is my shelter.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is my defender.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is my safety.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Great is God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If we neither regard the deeds nor respect the works of God, it leads to rebellion.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The Holy God performs righteous acts.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The holy God proved holy by his righteous acts.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We can neither hurry nor hasten the works of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When we turned to God, He will heal us, then we shall be happy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The wound can be healed by the word of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is pleasing to try the patience of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Follow the ways of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is better to consult God’s instruction than seek your own ways.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is better to inquire of God than seek your own ways?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The greatness of God's government knows no end.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Thank God who gave us relief from ruins of suffering.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Thank God who delivered us from harsh labour.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Gladness comes from God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
the great Judge rules with justice.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God rules with righteousness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is the great Judge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is my strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is my salvation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Despite tribulation, distress, famine, peril, and sword, God had allowed them all to emerge as conquerors.
— Donna Lynn Hess
Under Christianity neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality. It offers purely imaginary causes ("God" "soul," "ego," "spirit," "free will" -- "unfree will" for that matter), and purely imaginary effects ("sin," "salvation," "grace," "punishment," "forgiveness of sins"). Intercourse between imaginary beings ("God," "spirits," "souls"); an imaginary natural science (anthropocentric; a total denial of the concept of natural causes); an imaginary psychology (misunderstandings of self, misinterpretations of agreeable or disagreeable general feelings -- for example, of the states of the nervus sympathicus with the help of the sign-language of religio-ethical balderdash -- , "repentance," "pangs of conscience," "temptation by the devil," "the presence of God"); an imaginary teleology (the "kingdom of God," "the last judgment," "eternal life"). -- This purely fictitious world, greatly to its disadvantage, is to be differentiated from the world of dreams; the later at least reflects reality, whereas the former falsifies it, cheapens it and denies it. Once the concept of "nature" had been opposed to the concept of "God," the word "natural" necessarily took on the meaning of "abominable" -- the whole of that fictitious world has its sources in hatred of the natural (-- the real! --), and is no more than evidence of a profound uneasiness in the presence of reality. . . . This explains everything. Who alone has any reason for lying his way out of reality? The man who suffers under it. But to suffer from reality one must be a botched reality. . . . The preponderance of pains over pleasures is the cause of this fictitious morality and religion: but such a preponderance also supplies the formula for decadence...
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ
Do not be wise your own eyes. Seek the ways of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is my provider.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is my HOPE.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Bernie believed in God. He believed that God wanted people to enjoy life to the fullest, not drench themselves in aversion and prejudice.
— Rebecca McNutt, Bittersweet Symphony
Whether it’s an Iraqi widow mourning her dead loved ones standing helplessly in the rubble of her former home or a dying soldier in an Iraqi city street asking, “Why, God? Why is this happening? Where are you?” I can’t help but wonder the same. You realize that there is no justice, no karmic retribution swift enough, and that happy endings are a terrible, terrible lie. We are all subject to the same blind boot stomp and our luck is merely where we happen to be standing when death inevitably comes roaring down upon us.
— M.B. Dallocchio, The Desert Warrior
Forbidden things - my God, I'm drawn to them like a moth to a flame.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Faith is the knowledge of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Power and knowledge are funny things if you have no idea how to handle them. But God gives every man, woman, and child the opportunity to share in His divine nature and to live for an eternity. We are part of the infinite wonders of His inconceivable love for us, and we will share in His total power and knowledge if we pass this test.
— Nicholas M. Cuono Sr., This Is His House and These Are His Rules
That sin will never stand firm which is heartily prayed against....We must spread out all our case before our heavenly Physician, if He is to give us daily relief.
— J.C. Ryle, A Call to Prayer
God is in every human body. He is seen in the seventh plane. He is with form. He is only an outline. He is without any form. Everything is God and He is beyond everything. A man knows so far as God, by His grace, makes him understand.
— Dr Dipak Kumar Pramanik
Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist. I do not mean by this that every woman should be a painter, sculptor, musician, poet, or writer, but the artist who will write on the table of childish innocence thoughts she will not blush to see read in the light of eternity and printed amid the archives of heaven, that the young may learn to wear them as amulets around their hearts and throw them as bulwarks around their lives, and that in the hour of temptation and trial the voices from home may linger around their paths as angels of guidance, around their steps, and be incentives to deeds of high and holy worth.
— Frances E. W. Harper
THE BEST THING YOU CAN GIVE TO GOD AND HUMANITY IS YOURSELF.
— WISDOM KWASHIE MENSAH (WKM)
Reliance on God is the best thing to do
—  because God's good outweighs your best.
It is quite likely that while you are praying for God’s mercy and your wishes to be answered He too may be waiting to give you the desired wish. But, you have to at least start working towards it. You can’t just be sitting idle waiting for miracles. You have to work towards it and when the going gets tough, pray to Him to help you out. To seek God’s help you have to help yourself too.
— Latika Teotia
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”—Charles Baudelaire “The second greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he is the good guy”—Ken Ammi
— Charles Baudelaire
I don't believe in Religion. I believe in Connection, Relationship and Spirituality.
— Izey Victoria Odiase
A man is measured by the depths of his commitments.
— Mark William Goldman
Strange are the ways of God. At times He showers His gifts when we least expect them. Treat each day as an important one; you never know He may have decided to send you a gift through a small child looking for help or an unknown stranger seeking directions to a place or a person unable to pay his coffee bill because his pocket has been picked or a lady on the next table who absent mindedly leaves her purse in the café. Anyone of them could be the carrier of God’s gifts. Be alert His miracles can come up any time, in any form and through anyone. Your life may be about to change, His Angel is on the way so don’t be caught napping. Don’t treat today or any day as just another day.
— Latika Teotia
You are strong and you know it. Even when you are faced with problems, all you have to do is look within and you’ll find that not only are you capable of solving it but you can handle it much better than you think. So don’t lose heart. However, if you think that you are all alone with your problems may God fill you with hope and may you always be blessed with the kind of support you need. Stay blessed.
— Latika Teotia
This life is the only opportunity we will have to worship God in the midst of trials and tests. Heaven will be perfect.
— James Cooley
There are 300 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, and there are over 100 billion galaxies in the universe. In all of this vastness there is, and will ever be, only one of you. Who you are is the rarest and most unique thing in the universe - value yourself accordingly.
— John Chaplin
I am what I am and not what others make of me.
— Santosh Kalwar
Satan's greatest victories lays upon people believing his lies, Our greatest victories lays upon us believing God's Word.
— Manuel Corazzari
I've helped many friends and even strangers, start successful businesses, by encouraging their ideas, reshaping such visions and giving them a clear image to hold on to. But in the end, they forget me easily. I've noticed that they rather have the ones that didn't support them around them. They prefer to forget me as fast as possible when success is acquired. And why? Because the ego is always stronger than the spirit. And the ego is ashamed to admit its defeat, to say thanks and appreciate. The weak don't know that it is the spirit that calls them for success, and not the ego. With the ego, you go nowhere. And being very religious will never help with that. Simply because God can't do much for those who are blind by their ego. And yes, I've also met many incompetent but highly religious individuals that fail in life with the grace of God, proving that the God of life and success is not the God of the fools and most selfish. This duality confuses only the most egotistical. The plans of God are so very clear that He could be dead and they would still work as I outlined here.
— Robin Sacredfire
The Awakening Land" p628 A strange, uneasy feeling ran over him. If he had been wrong about his mother in this, might he by any chance have been wrong in other things about her also? Could it be even faintly possible that the children of pioneers like himself, born under more benign conditions than their parents, hated them because they themselves were weaker, resented it when their parents expected them to be strong, and so invented all kinds of intricate reasoning to prove that their parents were tyrannical and cruel, their beliefs false and obsolete, and their accomplishments trifling? Never had his mother said that. But once long ago he had heard her mention, not in as many words, that the people were too weak to follow God today, that in the Bible God made strong demands on them for perfection, so the younger generation watered God down, made Him impotent and got up all kinds of reasons why they didn't have to follow Him but could go along their own way.
— Conrad Richter, The Awakening Land: The Trees, The Fields, & The Town
May God show light to those who are groping in the dark not knowing which direction to take and in the process hurting others- knowingly or unknowingly. A single humble candle can defeat even the most stubborn darkness
—  an enlightened person can clear the cobwebs of even the most confused mind. May God enlighten everyone- especially those that hurt others.
Don’t run after people or plead with them beseeching them to return. If they leave you they were never meant to be a part of your complete journey. However difficult you may find it initially, don’t break down. Take it as a sign from God. Perhaps they were hampering your growth, perhaps they had made you so dependent that your entire world revolved around them. You must accept this change … and move on … You need people in your life who are supposed to be there…according to your destiny. Keep your eyes open, someone better is coming along. Trust God!!!
— Latika Teotia
Life is worth living when God throws His Divine dice in your favor. HE has slow-stirred my life with Wisdom and discernment about all manners of people; which is no secret agent in my soul sauce, it brings flavour to the taste buds of God's blessings in my life with extra side orders of favor.
— Tracey Bond
If God wanted us to get high, he'd have created plants that became psychoactive when eaten or smoked.
— Stephen Colbert
In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
How can it be that I’ve never seen that lofty sky before? Oh, how happy I am to have found it at last. Yes! It’s all vanity, it’s all an illusion, everything except that infinite sky. There is nothing, nothing – that’s all there is. But there isn’t even that. There’s nothing but stillness and peace. Thank God for that!
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Tomorrow’ is the thing that’s always coming but never arrives. ‘Today’ is the thing that’s already here and never leaves. And because that’s the case, I would much prefer to invest in today than sit around waiting for an arrival that’s not arriving.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The Limit of Happiness Is the Presence of GodBut it is something great that Abraham asks, namely that God shall not pass by nor remove to a distance and leave his soul desolate and empty (Gen. 18:3). For the limit of happiness is the presence of God, which completely fills the whole soul with his whole incorporeal and eternal light.
— Philo of Alexandria
O God, I’m grateful for this gift of another beautiful day. I pray that just as You give us a new gift of life every day, may we too value it as much. May Thy love and light always show us the right path. May we always be compassionate and kind to others. May we never ignore someone in need. Bless us O God so that we become the instruments of Thy wishes.
— Latika Teotia
As nothing is wasted in our life same goes for pain also. It only brings us closer to God and to ourselves too as we come to know our strengths. So allow life to unfold as it should. Just go with the flow.
— Latika Teotia
I pray to God to give you a happy life filled with compassion, kindness and peace. May joy never leave your door step. May your house always ring with the laughter of friends and family. May your good fortune increase day by day.
— Latika Teotia
Pray to whatever you believe in that they don't send the snakes.
— Zoe Forward, Hooked On A Witch
God’s mercy never fails so don’t live another moment in regret. Find the meaning of your life and discover your value by turning towards Him. Start dwelling on His unconditional love and limitless favor to live a joyful life.
— Latika Teotia
Don't seek the devil in the place which he calls his home
— Mladen Đorđević, Svetioničar - Vesnici oluje
Ethics are the things that say, 'Don’t stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It’s okay because we’ve shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we’ve chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I’m having a really hard time getting back up.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The gods say that a man is made the way he is for a purpose, and to seek to alter that is -" "Then let the gods live a day in my skin before they judge me.
— Devin Madson, The Blood of Whisperers
Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
It sucks. I think you'd make a pretty snake woman, but I'm not really into that kind of girl. Those pointy teeth and slitted nose. Their mindless need to kill..." He shuddered.
— Zoe Forward, Hooked On A Witch
Don’t allow the challenges of life to break you. Remember all the good things God has done, and fill your heart with faith
— Latika Teotia
Garden’s hush opens upan abyss at my center, still point.Someone touches me, mystery, otherness.No words are spoken, silencethe language of God.Silence, calm, hushed garden usher me into a presence, presence of my beloved.Let me rest in this quiet visit, gift that puts a beautifulend to a hectic day.Someone is with me—that is all that matters!-Evening Hush
— Robert Trabold, Watching the River Flow By: Selected Poems
It was the afternoon in the city of Orlando, Florida. Amid the hustle and bustle, the cafe next door to a strip mall played popular music out loud. Children and families with familiar cartoon characters on their shirts and hats walked past; vacationers took pictures of the palm trees and the ducks passing by, shouting, "Look! Florida ducks!
— Sunshine Rodgers, This Is My Heaven
SUDDEN RESURRECTION! Endless mercy!Blazing fire in the thickets of thought! Today you came laughing Unlocking dungeons Came to the meek Like god’s grace and bountyYou are the antechamber to the sunYou are the hope’s prerequisite You are sought Seeker Terminus PrincipiaYou pulse in every chest adorn every idea then permit their realizationSpirit- spring, irreplaceableDelight of action and cognition.All the rest is pretext, fraud- the former, illness; the latter, cureWe’re jaundiced by that fraudHeart-set to slay an innocentDrunk, now on angel eyesNow on plain bread and soupTaste this intoxication, drop your ratiocination Savor these delectable Drop the debatablesA little bread and greensShould not entail so much trouble*Ghazal 1
— Jalaluddin Rumi, Rumi: Swallowing the Sun: Poems Translated from Persian
Life is worth living when God throws His Divine dice in your favor. HE has slow-stirred my life with Wisdom and discernment about all manners of people; which is no secret agent in my soul sauce, it brings flavor to the taste buds of God's blessings in my life with extra side orders of favor.
— Tracey Bond
Is it not eminently just that I should give myself entirely and without reserve to Him Who drew me out of nothing, and Who at every moment of my life maintains the existence He has given me; Whom I have received all and from Whom I expect all, and without Whom I can never be happy?
— Father John Nicholas Grou, S.J.
God Is Not A Thief; the Devil Is the one that steals, kills and destroys.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Best Option
In a godless universe, all we have is each other.
— Marty Rubin
Spiritual Maturity is not how much of the bible you think you know, or how well you can recite prayers, but rather, it is how you act as a person, and use your belief in a God to better your life and the lives of people around you.
— Andrew Chong
Dear God, Why don't you ever get inspired by those carmakers who recall defective models? Please be humble, accept that you made and mistake and recall all idiots, criminals, haters, terrorists and replace their defective minds.
— EverSkeptic
It’s only human to become impatient while waiting for God’s timing and His gifts. But fretting won’t help. Stretch your faith more and think of great possibilities because one touch of God’s favor can turn any situation around. Hold on to your peace and pray.
— Latika Teotia
God has removed some people from your life for a reason, respect that or else you won’t be able to live a life He wants you to. Do not keep going back to the people who have been removed from your life or who have hurt you. Be firm and stand up against the injustice that is being heaped on you. Refuse to be cowed down. Not putting up with the nonsense of others will not be construed as being rude or unkind, you will still continue to be a sweet, loving, kind and gentle person that you really are.
— Latika Teotia
Do you feel that you are in a complicated situation today when nothing seems to be going right for you? Are you bewildered or baffled by what is happening around you? Relax! God always has our well being in mind. Reach out to Him, pray with all your heart, talk to Him about your fears, share your worries with Him and you will feel much lighter. You may even see the purpose of your present situation. A lady was having her breakfast, her 7 year old daughter, who was in a playful mood, accidentally dropped coffee on her. She yelled at her and had to go and change her clothes. When she came down, she found her child crying hysterically. It took a lot of time to pacify her and in the commotion the girl missed her school bus. She had to go and drop her to the school knowing full well that she was going to be late to office and would get hardly any time to prepare for an important presentation that she had to give later in the day. She cursed her fate, looked up to Heaven and muttered, “O God why me? Why did this happen on such an important day?” After dropping her daughter at her school she found that her office block, which was in a high rise building, had caught fire. The fire which had started two floors below had quickly spread to the rest of the floors and her colleagues were trapped in the building. Had she reached in time she too would have been one of them. Delay in reaching office had, in fact, saved her!So, look for God’s message in everything and have patience as well as faith.
— Latika Teotia
The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.
— Vance Havner, Pepper N Salt
Let God leave us! Let us grow up. Let us walk forward on our own. Because we need the silence of the holy: we need the sacred and equally we need its maddening silence. And in the curious privacy and relief of that silence we can go out into the chaos and commit a thousand acts of minor and gleeful splendor all our own. If it's our tragedy to be left by God, then let it also be our luck.
— Lydia Millet, Sweet Lamb of Heaven
Ever since that troublemaker Eve handed that gullible Adam the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, they say, human beings have been continuously messing up and suffering the consequences. But in the depths of your darkest despair your Beloved calls to you: "Look," he says, and opens the fathomless beautiful wound of his heart so that you can peer inside. All creation is nestled there, bathed in beauty. "Do you see any sin here?" he asks. "Do you detect a shred of retribution?" You do not. All you perceive, from horizon to endless horizon, is love.
— Mirabai Starr, The Showings of Julian of Norwich: A New Translation
Your God would never punish you for being a human being: this life itself is your penance...But it is also more than that: it is a crucible for transformation. Each trial, every loss, is an opportunity for you to meet suffering with love and make of it an offering, a prayer. The minute you lift your pain like a candle the darkness vanishes, and mercy comes rushing in to heal you.
— Mirabai Starr, The Showings of Julian of Norwich: A New Translation
Even though we keep talking about counting our blessings, looking at brighter side of things, being positive and so on, do we really practice them when things fall apart at the seams? That is the time we crib and grumble the most. “Why me? Why this? Why that?” and so on are the questions uppermost in our minds. That is the time to remember God’s innumerable mercies and Blessings showered on us in the past. That is the time to practice what you have been saying so many times. Rekindle your faith and Hold on to Him. Remember that there are still things to be thankful for.
— Latika Teotia
If you hang to pain, hurt, embarrassment, guilt and such emotions you will find that they will dominate your life. They won’t allow you to move on unless you make a conscious effort to deal with them and free yourself. Talking to friends, family or to God can help remove the burden from your chest and make you feel better.
— Latika Teotia
The only thing on Earth you can count on is that there is nothing on Earth you can count on.
— Eleanor Brownn
Forgive and forget what had happened. Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures. Relax !!! You are constantly evolving. Love yourself to bits.Get up !!! Step out !!! And keep this in mind that God’s help is close at hand. Repose trust in Him and all will be well. ~Latika Teotia
— Latika Teotia
When in doubt, look inwards and honestly count your blessings. We often grumble when things go wrong or when we get hurt. We are prone to crib about what we don’t have and forget to see what we already have. Comparing yourself with the good fortune of others is bound to bring a lot of misery in its wake. If you really want to get into that comparison mood then compare yourself with those who are less fortunate. A man who had just lost his job was sitting dejectedly in his balcony and watching people pass by when his eyes fell on a beggar who was rummaging through garbage for some food. The man in the balcony felt happy that at least he had enough to eat and was not reduced to what the beggar was doing. The beggar saw a one legged man who was hobbling around on crutches and felt happy that he had all his limbs intact. The one legged man saw a man being taken in a wheel chair and counted himself fortunate that he could at least move around on his own. The man in the wheel chair saw a hearse taking away a dead body and thanked God that he was alive.
— Latika Teotia
We can't change by fancy methods. We can't change by mere willpower. But God's Spirit working in us can help us to "will and to act according to his good purpose" (Philippians 2:13).
— Joshua Harris, Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship
We don't live as God intended us to, but we live as the Devil wants us to.
— Anthony T. Hincks
I am an advocate of godliness, not of god.
— Abhijit Naskar, 7 Billion Gods: Humans Above All
Nature deemed God worthy and hence chose it as her slave to serve the humans appearing as the master.
— Abhijit Naskar, 7 Billion Gods: Humans Above All
Hard as it may sound, no god has saved anything or anyone in human history. It is the humans who have done so.
— Abhijit Naskar, 7 Billion Gods: Humans Above All
As humans dominate the world, then logically someone dominates the entire universe and that ‘someone’ is God!
— Md. Ziaul Haque
Time: the Ever-flowing pen of God.
— AdOrAbLe MiNd
Whatever is happening to me is for my good; I have full faith in God. He will never do something that is not good for us nor will He ever forsake us. He works in mysterious ways and keeps an eye on each one of us. Therefore, I will continue on my path and continue doing what I’m doing as also what I want to do. I’ll not hold myself back. If there is a mess around me, I’ll work even harder to turn it into something positive; perhaps God has a message for me, I’ll try to find it. My faith in the Good Lord is unshakeable.
— Latika Teotia
No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he has been found by God.
— Thomas Merton, The Silent Life
Man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him, he liked to say.
— Elie Wiesel, Night
Whatever you do, do it if it brings you peace. If in doubt look up to God and seek His guidance. In fact seek His blessings before starting anything and you won’t go wrong.
— Latika Teotia
We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
— Ronald Reagan
The history of the human race doesn’t make happy reading, does it? I’ve seen a lot of sadness during my time, but I’ve seen seen a lot of things that have kept my faith in humanity alive too. If there were no bad things in the world, we’d have nothing to measure the good against, would we? The light can only shine in darkness.
— Peter James, The House on Cold Hill
Don’t allow the challenges of life to break you. Remember all the good things God has done, and fill your heart with…
— Latika Teotia
Our world no longer hears God because it is constantly speaking, at a devastating speed and volume, in order to say nothing.
— Robert Sarah, The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise
The Giver of Life enrages us,He intoxicates us here.No one is at His sideto be famous, to rule on Earth.
— Nezahualcóyotl
I'd like to see you dance around a caldron naked.
— Zoe Forward, Hooked On A Witch
So, you're the Santa Claus of the magic world with a naughty and nice list?
— Zoe Forward, Hooked On A Witch
Kissing her wasn't just a kiss. It was a full-body, mid-altering experience.
— Zoe Forward, Hooked On A Witch
I promise if you come to my car I won't cuff you unless..." his voice dropped in a sensuous tone, "...that's what you want.
— Zoe Forward, Hooked On A Witch
...hope is never wasted. Even if what I hoped for did not come to fruition as I had imagined, as I had hoped. Hope is placing the beautifully vulnerable parts of ourselves, our raw selves, into His hands. I believe hope moves His heart; but hope also moves our hearts into His hands. Hope builds trust.
— Natalie Brenner, This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life
Jesus was not just a man filled with the baptism of the Holy Spirit, or blessed with the presence of God, like the prophets of the Old Testament. The fullnesss of that wonderful presence of the Lord's Spirit Being, not just a part of it, was incarnated in the body of Jesus Christ and flowed out from Him.
— S. G. Norris
To return to the Might God is to truly rely on Him.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
God first loved us.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I craved to make my faith as real as possible, which meant being recklessly honest in His presence.
— Natalie Brenner, This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life
You are a masterpiece. A painting. A poem. A song. A statue. A work of art. Think of yourself that way. Embrace yourself that way. Honor yourself that way. In doing so you are honoring Him who made you.But you don't feel like a masterpiece/Thats ok because I'm not talking about your emotions. I'm talking about you. Those feelings are real, but in a sense, they are irrelevant because they don't change the facts.You are a masterpiece whether you feel like one or not.You may feel like a failure, but God says you are his workmanship, created n Christ Jesus for good works. Thats the reality you need to focus on when your feelings tell you something else. God will raise your feelings up to your destiny, don't lower your destiny down to your feelings.
— Tony Evens
God is the Everlasting Counselor.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is the Wonderful Counselor.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is the Everlasting Father.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The greatness of God knows no end.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is the Prince of Peace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The godly shall seek God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The godly shall pray to God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The godly shall desired God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The splendor of God is displayed in the stars with the magnificent of the moon.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The Maker is the Mighty One.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The truth of the gospel is the true words of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Isn't forgiveness a holy virtue? And if so, then why do we insist on keeping historical records of resentment? Is the Creator an advocate of love or hate? And if love, then why are we still pushing so much hatred? What is there ever to be gained from vocalizing hatred? Only more hatred. Who wants that? And why?
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Oh God your love is so overwhelming!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My first love is the heavenly Father.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God never cease to exist because His invisibility is doubted.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The mystery of the gospel is inexpressible.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not take the grace of God for granted.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is willing to help you with the rain if only you can sow your crops.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
Do something purposeful and wise so that when God sent his blessings, they will fall on it.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
If you leave your soil untilled, you will not benefit from God’s rain. Even if God pours down a heavy rainfall, it will only grow weeds on your land.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
God cannot resist the man who desires Him ardently. The chief reason why we do not find God is we do not desire Him ardently enough. Like air, the day you desire God as desperately as you desired to breathe, you will surely find Him.
— Jimvirle/Jinvirle
We like to think we're in control but we never are.
— Joyce Rachelle
Sometimes God pulls us away from normal just long enough to begin something great in us.
— Bethany Kaczmarek, Strains of Silence
If it meant brighter stars, she would follow God into the darkness.
— Bethany Kaczmarek, Strains of Silence
And He was the one who invented marriage so that the blazing fire of romantic love could become something even more beautiful - a pulsing, red-hot ember of covenant love in marriage.Why did He do it? For the same reason that He made sunsets and mountain ranges and fireflies! Because He's good. Because He wants to give us a million different opportunities to see just how wonderful He is.
— Joshua Harris, Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship
God's ways of making Himself known are infinite.
— Mahrukh
How strange it is beholding this,and, very confident,proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident.
— Joyce Rachelle
Usiingilie mambo ya mtu mwingine bila kibali kutoka kwa Mungu. Kuingilia mambo ya mtu mwingine bila kibali kutoka kwa Mungu ni dhambi. Dhambi hiyo itakuathiri. Hivyo, jali mambo yako – ya mwingine Mungu anayafanyia kazi – hadi utakapoitwa na Mungu kuingilia kati. Kuingilia kati mambo ya mtu mwingine kunaweza kuathiri mpango wa Mungu katika maisha yake. Hivyo, acha.
— Enock Maregesi
Wewe kuingilia mambo ya John ni sawa na kusema, ‘Mungu umeshindwa hebu ngoja na mimi nijaribu; ngoja niingilie kati kukusaidia juu ya maisha ya John Doe.’ Hiyo ni dhambi. Tena ni dhambi kubwa. Unajifananisha na Mungu; kwamba Mungu wa John Doe ameshindwa kwa hiyo mungu wewe ndiye utakayemtatulia matatizo yake. Amri kuu ya kwanza ya Mungu inasema, ‘Usiwe na miungu mingine ila mimi.’ Kuingilia mambo ya John tayari umevunja amri ya kwanza ya Mungu kwa kujifanya Mungu. Mungu ana mpango na maisha ya John, na anatumia matatizo yake kumfikisha kwenye takdiri aliyompangia. Hivyo, wewe si Mungu, acha Mungu afanye kazi yake. Mungu akikuruhusu kuingilia kati, yaani John akiamua kwa hiari yake mwenyewe kukuomba msaada wa mawazo au ushauri, maana yake ni kwamba Mungu amekuchagua wewe kuwa sehemu ya mafanikio ya John Doe.
— Enock Maregesi
There used to be a time when i thought of god i'd look to the power in the sky, now when i think of god i look at the power within myself.
— John Maiorana (oohGiovanni)
God, please give us more grace!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is but one supremacy... and it remains known and unknown to it's human creation... of many hues, shapes and sizes.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
God is the greatest problem solver, without Him we are doomed.
— Euginia Herlihy
The Supreme Cult never leaves a man. It never gets destroyed or evaporated. It is God’s grace and it is sure to bear fruit in its own time.
— Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
Don't envy results, seek to know the process. Don't want a man's glory till you hear his story. Sometimes what you see is not even the destination, it's just the current location but the result of a long journey. God sometimes would bring you to a point where it is much more than the gift...He captures your heart. My friend, not everything in the kingdom is a gift, somethings are rewards.
— Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
Mungu ana uwezo wa kukuwekea ulinzi kulia na kushoto yaani anayekulinda naye ana mlinzi wake. Lakini wakati mwingine anaacha ufuate kile ambacho moyo wako unataka kwa sababu hataki kukulazimisha ijapokuwa uwezo huo anao. Mungu hakukuumba kuwa roboti. Alikuumba kuwa huru kuchagua mema au mabaya usije ukamlaumu baadaye kwamba ulimchagua yeye kwa sababu hukuwa na uhuru. Msikilize Roho wa Mungu, kabla na katika kila jambo unalofanya.
— Enock Maregesi
The essence is HIS presence.
— Mahrukh
Nature plays its role to strengthen the connection.
— Mahrukh
HE wants you to feel HIM in any possible way you can, but you lazy bird, come on, make a step and you will feel all you got to feel.
— Mahrukh
God knows when you need what.
— Mahrukh
You cannot describe the beauty of nature in words, you cannot capture the feeling of God in camera. Its about the moment you set yourself free and live it.
— Mahrukh
The way a stream is connected to its source, the same way our souls are connected to their source.
— Mahrukh
The Kingdom of God is a tricky concept, and I was always taught it referred to our heavenly reward for being good, which, now that I actually read the Bible for myself, makes very little sense. Others say that the Kingdom of God is another way of talking about the church, and still others say that it's the dream God has for the wholeness of the world, a dream being made true little by little among us right here, right now. My answer? All of the above.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
He could breathe more freely in a lighter air. He was responsible only to himself for the things he did. Freedom! He was his own master at last. From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.
— W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
When you are wildly inlove with SOMEONEIt changes your whole life.
— Mac Canoza
Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is the Father of Jesus Christ.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When deeply religious subjects view sacred iconography or reflect on their notion of God, brain scans reveal hyperactivity in the caudate nucleus, a part of the pleasure system that correlates with feelings of joy, love, and serenity. But Lindstrom and Calvert found that this same brain region lights up when subjects view images associated with strong brands like Ferrari or Apple.
— Steven Kotler, Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
Should we not invariably act in this life as though the God whom our heart desires with its highest desire were watching our every action?
— Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom And Destiny
God is not anybody's problem, nor are the many paths to him. However, man is God's problem. Most of the problems across the land are due to man's hand. Men playing God. Men tampering with the divine plan. If it was all left to God then there would be peace among all living things. Yet man is his own enemy. People doubt Satan exists, but he has always existed in left eye of every man. In the moon of man, which harbors the ego of man. Only when you train yourself to see only through your right eye, which reflects the sun, conscience and heart of man - will you have truly defeated Satan. Know which eye reflects the heart and which reflects the mind and only then will you really begin to see the light. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
God’s simple Blessings are nothing short of miracles. That rain drop trapped in a leaf, that glistening dew drop which has just caught the first rays of a new born sun, that sweet song of the Nightingale, those beautiful wooly clouds with their unique designs (have you ever noticed that clouds never make the same design twice- and we humans struggle to draw something new or write something unique), the pit pit patter of the rain creating a music of its own. These are but some of His Blessings that make me look up in awe at our Creator. So caught up are we in our daily lives with our monotonous routine that we fail to notice the millions of miracles happening all around us. Pause. Look around. Notice. Feel. Life is not just about rushing through. It’s also about taking a break.
— Latika Teotia
I am not where I need to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.
— Joyce Meyer
It is a horrible thing that those who oppose Christ oppose themselves and in their opposition to Christ they are bound by Satan and enslaved by his lies and temptations.We may rightly say; "I once was blind but now I see." Now as we have been enlightened by the Holy Spirit we should be able to care enough about those who are still bound to pray that God would have the same mercy on them that he has given freely to us."C R Lord 2017
— C R Lord
This is the day which the Lord has brought about
—  we will rejoice and be glad in it ( Psalm 118:24 )