God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
-James H. Aughey
Quotations
God
Love is the firstborn, loftier than the gods, fathers and men. You, O Love, are the eldest of all, altogether mighty. To you we pay homage!...
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
A virtuous person fears God without being afraid of him.
-Immanuel Kant
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
-Mother Teresa
People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.
-Pearl Bailey
He is the living One; there is no god but He: call upon Him, giving Him sincere devotion.
-Quran "Quran 40.65"
Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.
-Robert Brault "Robert Brault"
The gods and demons were rivals of each other. The demons, swollen with pride, said, “In what, pray, should we place the oblation?” And they proceeded to place it in their own mouths.
-Scriptures "Satapata Brahmana"
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work and look around you.
-Leo Tolstoy
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
-Mother Teresa
