We need silence to be able to touch souls.
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.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside
Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
For beauty is God's handwriting...A nd, thank God for it as a cup of His blessing.
My loving children, my children who were created with God's beauty, my wise children, whatever difficulty you may have, do not ever leave His charge. Just as the prophets of God kept their faith firm and were tolerant in spite of the problems they had, no matter what difficulties you may experience, be tolerant, be forbearant and embrace all living things as your own life.
Think about it: it is easy to see God's beauty in a glorious sunset or in ocean waves crashing on a beach. But can you find the holiness in a struggle for life?
Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!
The central question is, Are the leaders of the future truly men and women of God, people with an ardent desire to dwell in God's presence, to listen to God's voice, to look at God's beauty, to touch God's incarnate Word and to taste fully God's infinite goodness.
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