The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me. God is bigger, like my mother, easier to find, even in the dark. I could be anywhere, and since I can't describe myself I can't ask for help.
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ELIZABETH GILBERT Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co... ALICE WALKER My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for m... VERA FARMIGA The Kingdom of God is a tricky concept, and I was always taught it referred to our heavenly reward f... NADIA BOLZ-WEBER God and I have been about this for quite a while now and I would be really surprised if God were to ... GENE ROBINSON Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe. GALILEO GALILEI The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell... ADAM HAMILTON God knows there has been a lot we could have done in the last six weeks. That tends to get written i... LORNE MICHAELS There’s not much that I can find in places where there is nothing to find. However, to avoid facin... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH My not having what i desire mean two things: time is not yet ripe for me to have it or there is far ... STEPHEN EVANS HEREMESI God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosop... FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I d... CARL GUSTAV JUNG God is not going to send someone to hell for my mistakes. So God and I have to deal with my own salv... MIKE TYSON I wonder if my watching him from the armchair is what it's like to be God, if there is a God. He sit... CECELIA AHERN THE CHALLENGES I FACE IN LIFE COMPEL ME TO PRAISE GOD EVEN MORE; FOR THEY ARE INDICATORS THAT HE WAN... JOB LAZARUS OKELLO. The message is that I was reminding myself and informing others of the fact that God has always been... ANDRAE CROUCH Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to... THOMAS JEFFERSON She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch... ALICE WALKER I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certaint... YEHUDA BERG It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel d... HELEN KELLER People have to realize that God has blessed me with power. He hasn't got me this far for no reas... DEONTAY WILDER I was just blessing God. As a mother, I was terrified. But now, instead of weeping and thinking that... JUANITA JOHNSON My mother was born in the year 1899 and I was sitting there on New Year's Day in 1999 saying, 'God, ... TED KOPPEL Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead, he made me as tall as the s... MALALA YOUSAFZAI I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when t... JOHN DONNE Religion is the biggest drama, the man has ever written and the God is the best character, the man h... NEIL JAIN Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence tha... JAMES MACDONALD I'm not looking ahead joyfully to the rest of my life or the future of the human race. I've ... T. C. BOYLE I believe that God has a plan and purpose not only for the human race, but for my individual life. ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ I really comprehend the fact that some of what I have to say sounds a little weird. But the more and... STEPHEN BALDWIN My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn... STEVIE WONDER There are ways to discover what God has created you for SUNDAY ADELAJA
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JEANETTE WINTERSON I looked out across the Ocean, and determined to drown myself. I was up to my chin when the sho... JEANETTE WINTERSON Loneliness isn’t about being by yourself. That’s fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. L... JEANETTE WINTERSON …only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world. JEANETTE WINTERSON Much of what I have done is left unfinished- not because I left it too soon, not because I was lazy,... JEANETTE WINTERSON The truth is that I’ve spent all my life with my binoculars trained on the Maybe Islands, a pristi... JEANETTE WINTERSON For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate peopl... JEANETTE WINTERSON Wallowing is sex for depressives. JEANETTE WINTERSON Poor me. There's nothing so sweet as wallowing in it is there? Wallowing is sex for depressives. JEANETTE WINTERSON I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death,... 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JEANETTE WINTERSON I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written som... JEANETTE WINTERSON Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough. JEANETTE WINTERSON But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that. JEANETTE WINTERSON Often the greatest progress happen in the most difficult of times. JEANETTE CORON A circle of women may just be the most powerful force known to humanity. If you have one, embrace it... JEANETTE LEBLANC Be gentle. Pay attention. Offer purposeful healing. Seek Equilibrium. Unfreeze, slowly. Stretch your... JEANETTE LEBLANC We are here to love hard and true. Here to give ourselves over to the rush and bliss of it all. Here... JEANETTE LEBLANC To know the hope and the struggle and the stay still and the run away and the come here and the push... JEANETTE LEBLANC I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeo... JEANETTE MACDONALD Do not try quiet my voice. Do not attempt to soften my edges or tame my prowl. I am inhabi... JEANETTE LEBLANC Humans can learn to like anything, that's why we are such a successful species. You can drop humans ... JEANETTE DESOR Butterflies are beautiful, but the process of emerging from the chrysalis and spreading your wings c... JEANETTE LEBLANC Been painting ceramics for years, I love it. I am waiting until I finish this project so that I can ... JEANETTE BROWN It's like raping Alice in Wonderland. JEANETTE WILLIAMS If you stop being afraid of the word no and take more chances, you will get more yes. JEANETTE CORON I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald... JEANETTE MACDONALD You’re either part of the problem or part of the solution. There are no bystanders who get to clai... JEANETTE LEBLANC The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess. JEANETTE MACDONALD I must have had rocks in my head. JEANETTE MACDONALD I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald going t... JEANETTE MACDONALD I can't believe how blessed I am! I'm married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I'm deep... JEANETTE MACDONALD I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love ... JEANETTE MACDONALD You realize, monsieur, that I am not in love with you, that I have no intention of falling in love w... JEANETTE MACDONALD & Whenn i Scratch my Nailss Down hisss baqqqq ; yourrr gonnahhh feel it. JEANETTE R. Because like the depths of the ocean that calls you home, you will never be easy. But dar... JEANETTE LEBLANC It can be said that we are built by many things. Biology and lineage. Grit and moonlight and ocean s... JEANETTE LEBLANC