NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 450

 

• ·       "You will learn to love your brethren more when you first learn to love their Father in heaven more, and after you have become truly more interested in their welfare in time and in eternity." – Jesus

  ·       "Any God I ever felt in Church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did, too. They come to Church to share God, not find God." - Alice Walker

  ·       “If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.” — John R. Wooden

  ·       "The motive of the prayer gives it right of way to the divine ear, not the social, economic, or outward religious status of the one who prays."

  ·       “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.” ~ Sarah Dessen

  ·       "It is not death we should fear, but never beginning to live." - Marcus Aurelius

  ·       "The spirit [of Truth] guides into all truth; he is the teacher of an expanding and always-growing religion of endless progress and divine unfolding."

  ·       Dogma is less useful than cow dung. - Mao Tse-tung

  ·       “Many trauma survivors hold their breath and their bodies tightly, bracing themselves for whatever is coming next. Staying alert for years takes a toll. Create spaces where you can take your armor off.” ~ Thema Davis

  ·       "Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith." - Paul Tillich

  ·       "The actuality of the existence of God is demonstrated in human experience by the indwelling of the divine presence, the spirit Monitor sent from Paradise to live in the mortal mind of man and there to assist in evolving the immortal soul of eternal survival."