God
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You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
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.
Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.
Being out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy.
I believe that the whole human race is the family of God.
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.
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