How can one accept — let alone enjoy — aging in a culture where God is twenty-five; where advertisements are filled with twenty-somethings in halter tops and tight t-shirts, unless the ad is for a drug to treat incontinence, high blood pressure, or elevated cholesterol? What about the wisdom of age? What about endurance? What about the beauty of a face etched by years that were not always easy? —Genie Zeiger More about this quote Tags: God easy wisdom acceptance beauty aging age youth incontinence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things. —Pablo Picasso More about this quote Tags: God art animals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Slipping on my shoes, boiling water, toasting bread, buttering the sky: that should be enough contact with God in one day to make anyone crazy. —Hafiz More about this quote Tags: God enough water sky Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere. —Fran Lebowitz More about this quote Tags: God Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So many gods, so many creeds, / so many paths that wind and wind, / While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox More about this quote Tags: God kindness sadness need Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. —Alice Walker More about this quote Tags: God church Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God. —Flannery O'Connor More about this quote Tags: God religion dogma belief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
God is not a continent, like Antarctica, lying off somewhere, inert, without relation to human life till some Scott or Amundsen or Byrd finds him. God is not a mountain peak to which travelers must go and which they climb step by step. God is like the air we breathe or the earth beneath our feet. To discover God is simply to awaken to reality. It is like a plant discovering the sun and the rain that drew it from the earth or like children discovering the parents who gave them birth and love and nurture. —Luther A. Weigle More about this quote Tags: love life reality God children birth earth air awakening Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. It was like waking from a dream of separateness, of spurious self-isolation in a special world, the world of renunciation and supposed holiness. . . . This sense of liberation from an illusory difference was such a relief and such a joy to me that I almost laughed out loud. . . . I have the immense joy of being a member of a race in which God became incarnate. . . . There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Tags: love God laughter joy dream brotherhood relief separateness renunciation holiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Justice is like the kingdom of God — it is not without us as a fact; it is within us as a great yearning. —George Eliot More about this quote Tags: justice God yearning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment. —Pat Buckley More about this quote Tags: God nature animals birds Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting . . . but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. —Kurt Vonnegut More about this quote Tags: hate God evil fighting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
God has . . . ordered things that we may learn to bear one another's burdens; for there is no man without his faults, none without his burden. None is sufficient unto himself; none is wise in himself; therefore, we must support one another, comfort, help, teach, and advise one another. —Thomas à Kempis More about this quote Tags: God others wisdom help comfort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Once, perhaps, the God-intoxicated few could abscond to the wild frontiers, the forests, the desert places to keep alive the perennial wisdom that they harbored. But no longer. They must now become a political force or their tradition perishes. Soon enough, there will be no solitude left for the saints to roam but its air will shudder with a noise of great engines that drowns out all prayers. —Theodore Roszak More about this quote Tags: solitude politics God wisdom society prayer frontier Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The grandeur of nature is only the beginning. Beyond the grandeur is God. —Abraham Joshua Heschel More about this quote Tags: God beauty nature grandeur Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email