Thornton Wilder Quotes

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'

The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life.

If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

Passion is best spent on God; so get committed.

God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark.

Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.

In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.

God tests His people through hardship.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

When we obey God, we're not doing it for God... we're doing it for ourself. Because God takes pleasure when we're happy.

Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

I think God always has the best for us.

As you seek to know the will of our Heavenly Father in your life and become more spiritual, you will be far more attractive, even irresistible. You can use your smiling loveliness to bless those you love and all you meet, and spread great joy.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.

To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.

Each of you is a unique child of God. God knows you individually. He sends messages of encouragement, correction, and direction fitted to you and to your needs.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn't, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

God didn't create the universe so that talented people would be happy.