“Put yourself at the top of your to-do list every single day and the rest will fall into place.”-- Author Unknown
“God speaks in the red letters, the black letters, and the white spaces between the lines.” -David E.L.Johnson-
“Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. It’s a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do. Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open I’ll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I’ve stored away, just for this time in my life.”-- Author Unknown
"In the Christian story God descends to reascend. He comes down;… down to the very roots and sea-bed of the Nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the whole ruined world up with Him." -C.S. Lewis
“The practice of staying present will heal you. Obsessing about how the future will turn out creates anxiety. Replaying broken scenarios from the past causes anger or sadness. Stay here, in the moment.”-- S. McNutt
“Act as young as you feel. You’re not getting older; you’re getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.”-- Gwen Stefani
“Hundreds of men are hoarse from continual speaking, and are wearied out with running here and running there. If things slow down, we evolve yet another type of meeting. And when this new and added wheel is spinning merrily with all the other wheels, there may be no spiritual outcome whatsoever, but there is a wind blowing in our faces; and we hot and sticky engineers have a comfortable feeling that something is going on.” -A.J. Gossip-
“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
“Life is not a test so God can discover what we would do. Life is a test so we can discover what God does do.” -Peter Hiett-
“What are the things that you can’t see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love… They’re the guiding lights of a life.”-- President Jimmy Carter
“Am I a heretic? Maybe. If believing that God is all powerful, all loving, wiser than His creation and perfectly willing and capable of saving all of His children makes me a heretic, sign me up.”
https://trinities.org/blog/dallas-willard-god-is-happy/
Dallas Willard
Incidentally, I think think this is entirely compatible with the views that God hates evil, and that his wrath is to be feared. His happiness is so vast that despite his perfect sympathy, none of the billions of evils he witnesses ruins his life, which remains an immovably and immeasurably happy one. He is happy to be sure, but his tolerance his its limits. DT
“When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.” - Dietrich. Bonhoeffer
“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container."-- Wallace Stevens
“I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. Mine had me trained in two days.”-- Bill Dana
“Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.”-- Bill Paxton
“No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.” --Karl Barth
"Man can certainly flee from God… but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate. -Karl Barth
“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.”-- Anthony J. D’Angelo