Quotations For The Soul II

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy. ~ Tryon Edwards


One of the hardest lessons we learn in this life, and one that many people never learn, is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure in the common, the near at hand -- to see that heaven lies about us here in this world. ~ John Burroughs


My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness. ~ Michelangelo


Faith strips the mask from the world and reveals God in everything. It makes nothing impossible and renders meaningless such words as anxiety, danger, and fear, so that the believer goes through life calmly and peacefully, with profound joy -- like a child, hand in hand with his mother. ~ Charles De Foucauld


Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence. ~ Freya Stark


As we begin to sense the divine in the 'ordinary', our 'ordinary' lives will become quite extraordinary. ~ Richard Carlson


We are learning from the teaching and example of Jesus that life itself is a religion, that nothing is more sacred than a human being, that the end of all right institutions, whether the home or the church or an educational establishment, or a government, is the development of the human soul. ~ Anna Howard Shaw



Love...puts you in a right relation with God and others, reciprocal rather than heirarchical... But the great commandment is extralegal. Love cannot be forced. It must be chosen. You love not out of dread but out of your own fullness. It's what you were made for. When you fail at it, you aren't sent to prison, or to the electric chair, or to hell. You are commanded again: Love. ~ Nancy Mairs


When half the world is still plagued by terror and distress, you stop guiltily sometimes in the midst of your house-laughter and wonder if you've a right to it. Ought any of us to laugh, until all of us can again, you ask yourself, sometimes. ~ Margaret Lee Runbeck

Quotations For The Soul I

Power of Love



You Are My Hiding Place



You're My Hiding Place



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Quotation About Creativity

Curiosity is the fuel of creativity.

Creativity is best defined by two small words,"What if?" Let this be the starting point.

Creativity is a journey -- whenever you go, go with all your heart.

The first step toward creativity is to acknowledge and accept that by applying ourselves, we can improve and even expand our ability to be creative.

Creativity is the capacity to confirm through action what can be imagined.

Creativity is the license to explore, to try things out, and to get things wrong. If you are going to do something wrong, you might as well enjoy it.

Creativity doesn't always recognize talent, yet talent instantly recognizes genius.

When you can see what everybody else has seen but be thinking what nobody else has thought, you will have discovered your creativity.

The world's wisdom and the experience of the ages has been preserved through man's creativity.

If you are going to make a living on the proceeds of your creativity it's better to grow a thick skin than to buy an expensive suit.

In creativity, there is as much, if not more, to be gained from the journey as there is from reaching the destination.

Whenever possible, encourage creativity in others, not with the aim of developing everyone as inventors and artists, but ensuring a continued balance in this world of critical thinkers.

Creativity can only survive desperation when it is prepared to leave behind everything it ever believed in .

If necessity is the mother of invention, its opposite is the father of creativity.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to select and hide your sources.

Artists are rarely satisfied people. They like it this way. Their creativity is fueled by unrest and dissatisfaction, which makes them stand out from everybody else, and which is why they appear to be more alive than all the rest.

Caution in creativity is often fatal.

Knowledge and integrity give creativity its strength and usefulness.

Integrity is vital, for creativity without integrity is often dreadful and potentially dangerous.

One may establish one's creativity by being prepared not only to experiment with ideas but also to take as many of them as possible through to their solutions before presenting them to others.

Creativity is fluid -- it runs from moment to moment, a river of possibilities running into a sea of potential.

The best place to begin the quest for creativity is the moment you wake on a new day. Tell yourself that anything is possible, then get up and see what is.

With tension and skepticism, creativity would be far less appealing -- and far more predictable.

Creativity generates mistakes. True art is knowing which one are worth correcting.

True creativity illuminates what, without it, would never have been.

Creativity not only invigorates, it rebalances and energizes mankind.

For creativity to flourish one should try to look at everything as though it were being seen for the first or the last time.

True creativity procures the greatest happiness, inspiration, or motivation for the greatest numbers.

Go into the garden of creativity with praise and encouragement and it will bloom all around you. But enter with criticism and discouragement and it will wither before your eyes.

Quotation About God II

God is great, and therefore he will be sought: he is good, and therefore he will be found. ~ John Jay


God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet. There is a divine purpose behind everything -- and therefore a divine presence in everything. ~ Neale Donald Walsch


Those without love have known nothing of God, for God is love. ~ 1 John 4:8


The whole meaning of our existence and the one consuming desire of the heart of God is that we should let ourselves be loved. ~ Ruth Burrows


All emotions, all human activities, and all spheres of life have deep roots in the mysteries of the soul, and therefore are holy. ~ Thomas Moore


To receive the love of God is to recognize it is all around us, above us, and beneath us; speaking to us through every person, every flower, every trial and situation. Stop knocking on the door: You are already inside! ~ Richard Rohr


I believe in God, who is for me spirit, love, the principle of all things. ... I believe that the reason for life is for each of us simply to grow in love. I believe that this growth in love will contribute more than any other force to establish the Kingdom of God on earth. ~ Leo Tolstoy


All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God. ~ Hannah More


Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God. ~ Mignon McLaughlin


Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are. ~ Meister Eckhart


We could not seek God unless He were seeking us. ~ Thomas Merton


To accept the responsibility of being a child of God is to accept the best that life has to offer you. ~ Stella Terril Mann


Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. ~ Eileen Caddy


The starting point in the religious experience is wonder. ~ Seymour Cohen


Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness. ~ Julian of Norwich


The highest point a man can attain is not knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe! ~ Nikos Kazantzakis


Awe precedes faith; it is at the root of faith. We must grow in awe in order to reach faith. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel


God is present in the confusion and dislocation of the world. One encounters God not by turning one's back on that world but by plunging into it with the faith that the divine-human encounter occurs in teh midst of the encounter of human with human, especially in the struggle to create signs of the coming of God's reign of peace and justice. ~ Harvey Cox


God is greater than my mind and my heart, and what is really happening in the house of prayer is not measurable in terms of human success and failure. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

Quotations About God I

Far beyond your intellect, far beyond your understanding, lies inexhaustible knowledge and wealth, strength and power, peace and joy. Do not use your intellect to find the answers for God and his manifestations. Everything is God. ~ Swami Vishnu-Devananda


When one finds himself, one finds God. You find God and you find yourself. ~ The Artist Formerly known as Prince


Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope. ~ George Santayana


God, so approachable by him who knows how to love, is hidden from him who knows only how to understand. ~ Alexis Carrel


God will of necessity always be a hidden God. His loudest cry is silence. If he does not manifest himself to us, we will say that he hides himself. And if he manifests himself, we will accuse him of veiling himself. Ah! It is not easy for God to make himself known to us! ~ Louis Evely


Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy and with righteous indignation, God's compassion and God's anger working through us, maybe the surest proof of all God's reality. ~ Harold S. Kushner


I myself believe that the evidence of God lies primarily in inner personal experiences. ~ William James

You should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, "I am in the heart of God." ~ Kahlil Gibran


God is our refuge and our strength, an ever-present help in distress. ~ Psalms 46:1


God is at home. It is we who have gone out for a walk. ~ Meister Eckhart


God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home. ~ Joseph Roux


He is the first and the last, the manifest and the hidden: and He Knoweth all things. ~ Al'Quran


God does not ask anything else of you except that you let yourself go and let God be God in you. ~ Meister Eckhart


God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed. ~ St. Augustine


God cannot be grasped by the mind. If he could be grasped he would not be God. ~ Evagrius Ponticus


The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to his inpouring. ~ Meister Eckhart


Nothing is stranger, more disconcerting, more misleading than a manifestation of God. We always take God to be different from what he is. ~ Louis Evely