quotes about god and love

During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. ~Joann C. Jones



It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. ~Author Unknown



If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens. ~Ashleigh Brilliant



Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. ~Edward Everett Hale



There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. ~Sydney J. Harris



People that put themselves above others will fall longer and harder. ~Gina Lindley



If there were to be a universal sound depicting peace, I would surely vote for the purr. ~Barbara L. Diamond If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison



We are not proving ourselves spiritually worthy of our material progress. We have not been neighborly, courteous, and kind upon the highway. Our lack of decency toward our fellow men is a definite black mark against us. ~Cary T. Grayson



One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known. ~Crates



It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home. ~Carl T. Rowan



Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism? ~Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead



Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far more likely to elicit a cheerful response than "Where's your manuscript?" Why haven't you called?" and "Who's your lawyer?" ~Fran Lebowitz



So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three. ~Alexandre Dumas, fils



We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. ~Michel de Montaigne



When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then. ~John Oliver Hobbes



Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning. ~Alan Kay



The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul. ~John Quincy Adams



There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder. ~Charles Morgan



The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. ~Jane Addams