Jan 9, 2011

YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD


God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try. -Mother Teresa

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him. Matthew Henry

It is good to have religion or some particular belief. But you can survive without them if you have love, compassion and tolerance.  The ultimate proof of a person’s love of God is his love for his fellow man.   Dalai Lama.

Stay focused on what God would want when you get offended, and you will be more likely to do the right thing. Mike Randerson

Life is a tapestry: We are the warp; angels, the weft; God, the weaver. Only the Weaver sees the whole design. -Eileen Freeman

What you are is God's gift to you. What you make of yourself is what you give back to God.

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers. Virgil

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it. ~Montesquieu

My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you. Benjamin Jowet

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work. Anatole France

Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece. Unknown

 God knows best what is good for us. ~ Socrates

To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.  When God takes something from your grasp, He's not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better.  Concentrate on this sentence... “The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you”.  Something good will happen to you today; something that you have been waiting to hear.

God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she might love him.  Unknown

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of humanity Rabindranath Tagore. Bengali poet, playwright, essayist...1913 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1861-1941 

Talent is God given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be grateful. Conceit is self-given; be careful. Unknown

God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do. -Regina Brett

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you. ~ Seneca

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature, and God.  Anne Frank. Jewish girl author of a diary of her family's two years in hiding during World War Two, 1929-1945  

God let me accept the things I cannot change, courage to change things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Unknown

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. Gandhi