Traditionally, I have responded to the transcendent mystics of all religions. I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that God does not live in a dogmatic scripture or in a distant throne in the sky, but instead abides very close to us indeed- much closer than we can imagine, breathing right through our own hearts.
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BEN HOWLAND To care means first of all to empty our own cup and to allow the other to come close to us. It means... HENRI J.M. NOUWEN I was very impressed with the idea of using a community's talents and assets rather than having ever... CARL STEPHENS We have reached our goal sooner than expected. The Philippine government is deeply satisfied. We are... SILVESTRE AFABLE P.G.'s a very physical team. We thought their physicality really posed trouble for us early in the g... BILL LEWIT Let us keep in mind that we do not have to go to the scriptures inorder to approach God. We do not h... THURMAN L. FAISON How much trouble you've ever been in is something schools are looking closer at now. But they don't ... ANTHONY DIXON God’s grace is a gift that is freely given to us. We don’t earn a thing when it comes to God’s... NADIA BOLZ-WEBER Who knows? Life may just be a Positive Conspiracy bent on putting us in the right place at the right... ANTERO ALLI The area has responded very well when the hurricanes devastated the South, but it's time now to reme... JANET M. CURTIS The guys that we have been putting in have been playing hard. We have had to improvise a lot with li... JAMEY COLLINS I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of... ANNE LAMOTT We are safe on the rock which is the Savior when we have yielded in faith in Him, have responded to ... HENRY B. EYRING have always responded in a professional manner from all inquires from the council and all members of... WILLIAM GRIFFITH My role is come off the bench, run the team and do whatever I have to do to keep us flowing, ... Wit... CHUCKY ATKINS How can you predict anything? I wouldn't have predicted this. It certainly tests your mettle, ... I'... DENNIS ARCHER I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and gl... BRIAN GREENE The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS I realized that we all have the ability to live in worlds of our own doing, to own what happens to u... ANDREW KENDALL That is probably the best game that we have played defensively in the three years I have been at Wet... JEFF PARSONS Instead, every precaution was taken not to violate his rights. Remember, many administrators have no... JAMES C. DOBSON In our day, we thought that the bards would sing of us for generations to come, but we did not belie... CLARA WINTER How does a cosmos without a bearded, bathrobed God in the sky pull off all the things that a bearded... HOWARD BLOOM I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal... JOHN LENNON After drying out for a day we headed back out to the rain and played. The rain was much heavier and ... GREG WALL The common strain in my work is that in each case I celebrate a moment when the individual responded... J. STEWARD JOHNSON, JR. But it does not seem that I can trust anyone,' said Frodo. Sam looked at him unhappily. 'It all... J.R.R. TOLKIEN When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most ... CRAIG GROESCHEL I tried to believe that there is a God, who created each of us in His own image and likeness, loves ... GEORGE CARLIN But there is a reason why religions insist so much on strange events in the sky, as well as on less ... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a ... PETER COCHRANE Remember!--It is Christianity to do good always--even to those who do evil to us. It is Christianity... CHARLES DICKENS If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS They hit us right in the mouth and our kids never responded. He had them ready to play. DUGGAR BAUCOM Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO It was an emotionally turbulent time for coach's family, and for us. But we saw what Tony has gone t... JAMES MUNGRO Because we made real progress and because in 1998, we said here's our future agenda -- save Social s... HILLARY CLINTON There is no record in Scripture that an angel visited John’s cell to explain the meaning of his pe... JAMES C. DOBSON I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal... JOHN LENNON We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-fligh... YOCHAI BENKLER We never pray against our government or call down curses on them. Instead, we have learned that God ... BROTHER YUN Into God's hands let us now -- for the coming year, and for all the years of time, and for Eternity ... EDWARD B. PUSEY My wife and I love children. We have five of our own. I would ask that anyone who looks up to me wou... ALBERT PUJOLS I can't ever remember having three guys score 20 or more points in the same game. We got off to a go... LYNN MCDONALD I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing o... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER A person who goes in search of God is wasting his time. He can walk a thousand roads and join many r... PAULO COELHO Pure, unadulterated, consistent love for God and pure, unadulterated, consistent love for others is ... ELYSE M. FITZPATRICK All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD Why is it that it is often easier for us to confess our sins to God than to a brother? God is holy a... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you ma... MICHEL FOUCAULT Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise. JANE AUSTEN As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human ... STOCKWELL DAY Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to c... C. EVERETT KOOP I have better understanding how difficult and complex life can be, fortunately I know when not to ta... SHELLIE PALMER How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own,... THOMAS MERTON The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever in people... KARON WADDELL Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON There is little we can point to in our lives as deserving anything but God's wrath. Our best moments... FREDERICK BUECHNER When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosit... RANDY NEUGEBAUER We all wish something or other in our life in our own way, but God have other plans and they are bes... PRAVIN AGARWAL The same God who loves us as we are also loves us to much to leave us as we are. Perhpas because we ... JOSEPH LANGFORD
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ELIZABETH GILBERT Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Ketut, why is life all crazy like this?" I asked my medicine man the next day...So what can we do ab... ELIZABETH GILBERT My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with peopl... ELIZABETH GILBERT Man, they got mosquitoes 'round this place big enough to rape a chicken. ELIZABETH GILBERT You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something ... ELIZABETH GILBERT I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might t... ELIZABETH GILBERT I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in... ELIZABETH GILBERT God dwells within you, as you. ELIZABETH GILBERT Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water. ELIZABETH GILBERT Dear me, how I love a library. ELIZABETH GILBERT That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us ... ELIZABETH GILBERT There's a reason we refer to "leaps of faith" - because the decision to consent to any notion of div... ELIZABETH GILBERT Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advanc... ELIZABETH GILBERT I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy ... ELIZABETH GILBERT In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic e... ELIZABETH GILBERT يعتقد المرء أن توأم الروح هو الشخص الأنسب له ، وهذا ماي�... ELIZABETH GILBERT Still it is true that many same-sex couples want nothing more than to join society as fully integrat... ELIZABETH GILBERT There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whisk... ELIZABETH GILBERT Nothing in the last few years has dazzled me more than Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall,' whic... ELIZABETH GILBERT I was suffering the easily foreseeable consequences. Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-... ELIZABETH GILBERT [Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and o... ELIZABETH GILBERT I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimac... ELIZABETH GILBERT Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclus... ELIZABETH GILBERT stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be... ELIZABETH GILBERT He showed me a sketch he'd drawn once during meditation. It was an androgynous human figure, standin... ELIZABETH GILBERT The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things th... ELIZABETH GILBERT The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this p... ELIZABETH GILBERT You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face. ELIZABETH GILBERT Moreover, I have boundary issues with men. Or maybe that’s not fair to say. To have issues with bo... ELIZABETH GILBERT Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, ... ELIZABETH GILBERT He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.... You can... ELIZABETH GILBERT The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, w... ELIZABETH GILBERT One year, Alma bought Prudence- who liked to draw flowers (beautifully, though not 'accurately')- a ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have...undressed in front of a gentleman has he ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely express... ELIZABETH GILBERT What worked yesterday doesn't always work today. ELIZABETH GILBERT This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe r... ELIZABETH GILBERT In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back people in this world who sustain ou... ELIZABETH GILBERT Alma had grown as tall as a man by now, with broad shoulders. ... This need not have necessarily pre... ELIZABETH GILBERT We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Pardon me, sir," Prudence said, directing her words and her placid gaze precisely at Professor Peck,... ELIZABETH GILBERT There’s this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that... ELIZABETH GILBERT When it comes to developing a worldview, we tend to face this false division: Either you are a reali... ELIZABETH GILBERT People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weath... ELIZABETH GILBERT I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productiv... ELIZABETH GILBERT This food won't be wasted; after the offering ceremony, Balinese families are always allowed to eat ... ELIZABETH GILBERT But doesn't that make sense? That the infinite would be, indeed... infinite? That even the most holy... ELIZABETH GILBERT I got to tell you, I think (deifying artists) was a huge error. You know, I think that allowing some... ELIZABETH GILBERT I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as t... ELIZABETH GILBERT The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted ... ELIZABETH GILBERT