NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 1227

 

• ·       “Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.” ~ John Ortberg

  ·       “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” ~ Socrates

  ·       “Those who are not grateful soon begin to complain of everything.” ~ Thomas Merton

  ·       “If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.” ~ Meister Eckhart

  ·       “The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale

  ·       Faith is never identical with piety. - Karl Barth

  ·       “As Jesus worked on your world as the carpenter’s son, so do other Paradise Sons labor in various capacities on their bestowal planets. You could hardly think of a vocation that has not been followed by some Paradise Son in the course of his bestowal on some one of the evolutionary planets of time.”

  ·       Share your favorite book with a friend. — Brooke

  ·        “Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.” - Eckhart Tolle

  ·       Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty. - Doris Day

  ·       “The religionist of faith believes in a God who fosters survival, the Father in heaven, the God of love.”

  ·       You may have a million desires to be in other places, doing other things, but you are not there, you are here. -  Zen proverb

  ·       “The material mind of mortal man is the cosmic loom that carries the morontia fabrics on which the indwelling Thought Adjuster threads the spirit patterns of a universe character of enduring values and divine meanings—a surviving soul of ultimate destiny and unending career, a potential finaliter.”

  ·       “The religionist of faith believes in a God who fosters survival, the Father in heaven, the God of love.”