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"In some time, His good time, we shall arrive; He guides me and the bird in His good time." Robert Browning, 'Paracelsus' |
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"In all the crowded universe there is but one stupendous word: Love. There is no tree that rears its crest, no fern or flower that cleaves the sod, nor bird that sings above its nest, but tries to speak this word of God." Josiah Gilbert Holland |
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"The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind." Jean Louis Agassiz, 'Agassiz at Penikese' |
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"He who knows God is truly moral." Friedrich vonSchelling |
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"God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation – a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of truth after truth." George Macdonald |
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"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues." Cicero, 'Oratio Pro Cneao Plancio, XXXIII |
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"Let the Divine Mind flow through your own mind, and you will be happier….I speak from my own experience." Cecil B. DeMille |
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"Many millions search for God and find Him in their hearts." Sikh Proverb |
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"Love is God's essence." Richard Garnett, 'De Flagello Myrteo', IV |
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"The great soul of this world is just." Thomas Carlyle, letter to Thomas Erskine |
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"God's thoughts, his will, his love, his judgments are all man's home. To think his thoughts, to choose his will, to love his loves, to judge his judgments, and thus to know that he is in us, is to be at home." George Macdonald |
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"The soul of man is immortal and imperishable." Plato, 'The Republic', Bk. X |
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"Welcome the truth, and believe that next to the knowledge of God nothing is so precious as the knowledge of self." Jean Nicolas Grou, 'Alliance Weekly' |
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"Everything that lives is holy." William Blake, 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' |
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"Behind the dim unknown stands God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." James Russell Lowell, 'The Present Crisis' |
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"God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations." Robert Browning, 'Paracelsus' |
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"There is a signature of wisdom and power impressed on the works of God… - Not only the splendor of the sun, but the glimmering light of the glowworm, proclaims his glory." John Newton |
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"It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it, as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity, now is the immortal life." Richard Jefferies, 'The Story of My Heart' |
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"To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, a living one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving." Vincent vanGogh (1853-1890) |
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"Love is to the moral nature exactly what the sun is to the earth." Honore deBalzac |
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The One remains, the many change and pass." Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'Adonais' |
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"In God's will is our peace." Anonymous |
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"Every man's life is a plan of God." Horace Bushnell |
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"On the imagination God sometimes paints, by dream and symbol, the likeness of things to come…Each is the yearning of the soul for the great Beyond, which attests our immortality." Edward George Bulwer-Lytton |
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"As a countenance is made beautiful by the soul's shining through it, so the world is beautiful by the shining through it of God." Johann Georg Jacobi |