God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
-Joseph Roux
"Meditations of a Parish Priest”"
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
-Joseph Roux
"Meditations of a Parish Priest”"
What you are is God’s gift to you; what you make of it is your gift to God.
-Anthony Dalla Villa
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
-William Shakespeare
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
The devotee engages to the best of his ability into the play of life, fulfilling his role on this earth as student, employee, husband, wife, parent, neighbor, and community servant. But at the heart of the devotee is a burning desire for the Lord.
You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
-Freeman Dyson
"The Meaning of Life"
God hides things by putting them all around us.
-Anonymous
To uphold righteousness, so supreme an act did he perform; he gave his head, but did not utter a word of sorrow. For the sake of righteousness, he did this great heroic deed; he laid down his life but not the principles… Guru Tegh Bahadur broke his earthly vase on the head of the Emperor of Delhi – and went to the abode of God.
Honour your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"