“God can take better care of you than you could ever take of yourself. He could open doors for you that you could never open. He can close doors that will keep you out of trouble. God can give you favor everywhere that you go.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 26 of 1176
“A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him. Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!”
“The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere.”
“For those who have experienced the joy of being alone with nature there is really little need for me to say much more; for those who have not, no words of mine can ever describe the powerful, almost mystical knowledge of beauty and eternity that come, suddenly, and all unexpected.”
“We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.”
“By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.”
“If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.”
“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
“In a life properly lived, you're a river.”
“We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need -- the umbrella of God's love.”
“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”
“Actually, being what you are is the simplest. What is difficult is to stop being what you are not.”
“I am a firm believer in reincarnation for people who either have more work to do or have so much debt to pay back that they have to be here.”
“If you are ignorant of God's Word, you will always be ignorant of God's will.”
“Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final”
“Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.”
“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”
“The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.”
“May today be peace within. May you trust your highest power that you are exactly where you are meant to be... May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith. May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you... May you be content knowing you are a child of God... Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise, and love. It is there for each and every one of you.”
“Truths are not truths to you unless you realize them within yourself. Without realization, they are just ideas. For spiritual perception, spiritual consciousness, lies not in vague theological ideas, but in the acquisition of Self-realization.”