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" I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed. "

Nikos Kazantzakis

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" 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

" If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. "

Florence Nightingale

" He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise. "

" Even in the tough times, He's still a good God. "

Victoria Osteen

" One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call. "

" God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart. "

" The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails. "

" God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. "

" If God is slow in answering your request, or if you ask but do not promptly receive anything, do not be upset, for you are not wiser than God. "

Isaac of Nineveh

" He 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. "

" In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. "

" It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job. "

" I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is. "

" You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. "

Swami Vivekananda

Believe In Yourself

" Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us. "

" God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow! "

" What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood. "

Radhanath Swami

" I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday. "

Raymond Chandler

" Every day is a gift from God. There's no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it. "

" The love of husband and wife, which is creative of new human life, is a marvellously personal sharing in the creative love of God who brings into being the eternal soul that comes to every human being with the gift of human life. "

Vincent Nichols

" God didn't give up on me. I am somebody in God's eyes... Let me be a prime example of how I've been through the storm and the rain, and I made it over. "

Fantasia Barrino

" White... 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. Chesterton

" We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. "

Wallace Stevens

" You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career. "

" If there is no God, everything is permitted. "

Fyodor Dostoevsky

" Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. "

William Makepeace Thackeray

" Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer. "

" It's like, if you're on a ship, and you're sailing towards your destination, but the ship sinks: that doesn't mean that you have to sink. Just because the ship sinks doesn't mean you have to sink. You just figure it out until a raft comes along, and God will send you a raft. Or He'll send you another boat to get you to your destination. "

" Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another. "

" People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. "