Expansiveness And God Quotes & Sayings

Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow. — Jon Gordon

A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. — James Boswell

emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers — Stephen King

In a wild leap that made her feel as though she'd left her body, she thought, It doesn't really matter who you settle on to love, finally, providing you both deserve it. — Patricia Henley

I watched the stars and thought of other lives. — David Mitchell

A man dies and goes to heaven. He is being shown around by an angel. Everything is just so sweet and gentle, the total golden tender presence of God everywhere, a pond over there, a beautiful field there, and some hills for people who like to hike, and this expansiveness in every direction of sky and light and physical beauty. And there is this section separated from the rest; it has beautiful high walls. The man who's just come to heaven says, "What's over there?" The angel says, "That's for the fundamentalists. They don't consider it heaven if anyone else got in. — Anne Lamott

Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?. — Lord Byron

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It hurts to see your loved one in pain, but it hurts more to see you cannot do anything about this pain. — Namrata

Ken Shamrock is the World's Most Dangerous Man? Maybe behind the wheel of a car. — Don Frye

God realization and self-realization are one and the same. God-realization is nothing but the ability and expansiveness of heart to love everything equally. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Perhaps we will one day be able at least to admit of a God possessing sufficient majesty and expansiveness to transcend the limits of our own imaginations and experience. But meanwhile, ... we might do well to look upon the inadequacy of our concepts of God as the truest mirror of those limitations that define our condition. — Ian Tattersall

For the people who don't know, my character could described, in a nutshell, as the bar dumb-dumb. — Charlie Day

I saw an angel close by me, on my left side, in bodily form. This I am not accustomed to see, unless very rarely. Though I have visions of angels frequently, yet I see them only by an intellectual vision, such as I have spoken of before. It was our Lord's will that in this vision I should see the angel in this wise. He was not large, but small of stature, and most beautiful
his face burning, as if he were one of the highest angels, who seem to be all of fire: they must be those whom we call cherubim. Their names they never tell me; but I see very well that there is in heaven so great a difference between one angel and another, and between these and the others, that I cannot explain it. — Teresa Of Avila

The medical profession's classic prescription for coping with such predicaments, Primum non nocere (First, do no harm), sounds better than it is. In fact, it fails to tell us precisely what we need to know: What is harm and what is help?
However, two things about the challenge of helping the helpless are clear. One is that, like beauty and ugliness, help and harm often lie in the eyes of the beholder
in our case, in the often divergently directed eyes of the benefactor and his beneficiary. The other is that harming people in the name of helping them is one of mankind's favorite pastimes. — Thomas Szasz