God
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Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.
Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger.
Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.
I don't think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He's given you... but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things... he's not a small God; this God is incredible.
I believe that the whole human race is the family of God.
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
I have always known my mother as an agnostic, less certain than my father that the universe hadn't been created by some great intelligence. But she would get even more annoyed than my father did when she thought that people were invoking God to do their jobs for them — for example, when she saw a bus with a sticker saying 'Allah Protect Us'.
Springsteen — he's the Lord God.
May we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little sanctuary.