God And Expansiveness Quotes & Sayings

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

One of the more curious paradoxes of Yates's nature was his almost archaic courtliness toward women on the one hand, and his lifelong tendency to emphasize their physical defects and/or dubious upbringing on the other. — Blake Bailey

It is not on your fears that good dreams are built but on hope and determination - rjs — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes. — James Thurber

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

I can imagine nothing more tiresome than always to speak of people as if they were listening at the door. — Ethel Smyth

Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin