Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.
—Jerry Seinfeld
God glows and flames… Eternity, believe it or not; it's as real as shit.
—Aldous Huxley in Island
Over and above any spring we may know, outside our windows or in our hearts, there is the illimitable sweep of God's concern for his creation and his creatures; comprehending both suffering and beatitude, and transcending both. No one who has been spared—certainly not I—dare say to the afflicted that they are blessed in their affliction, or dare offer comfort in universal terms for particular griefs. Yet one can dimly see and humbly say that suffering is an integral and essential part of our human drama. That it falls upon one and all in differing degrees and belongs to God's purpose for us here on earth, so that in the end, all the experience of living has to teach us is to say: Thy will be done. To say it standing before a cross; itself signifying the suffering of God in the person of a Man, and the redemption of a Man in the person of God. The greatest sorrow and the greatest joy co-existing on Golgotha.
—Malcolm Muggeridge in Something Beautiful for God
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
—Woody Allen
When your heart roams or gets distracted lead it back very gently, softly putting it close to its Master; and even if you spend your whole hour doing nothing except gathering up your heart quite calmly and putting it close to Our Lord, and even if your heart does nothing except turn away as soon as you have led it back, your hour will have been very well spent
—Francis de Sales
Once we know that the entire physical world around us, all of creation, is both the hiding place and the revelation place for God, this world becomes home, safe, enchanted, offering grace to any who look deeply.
—Richard Rohr in The Universal Christ
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
—Mark Twain