#God

"Do Me No Favors Haiku 'Do me no favors ~I can take care of myself.So, pay the check and drive me home."

"The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."

"Harlem P.O.V. Everything outside Harlem's the boondocks,where hayseeds opt out of Nikes for Reeboks."

"Laughter and The Chosen [10w] Making people laugh is God's gift to the Chosen People."

"Sometimes Magic is What Disappears [10w] + {Couplet} Love's tragic, not ecstatic;with finespun change, disappears the magic."

"You are the God. You are the embodiment of God. The moment you start to love everyone and everything, you are doing your divine duty."

"There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that to be true. (124)"

"The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home. They became saints because they continued to go after the little wanderer, like the Good Shepherd."

"You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody..."

"Thorny Love [10w] A thorn by any other name would hurt as much."

"Thorn [5w] Every thorn has its rose."

"Angels had fallen, men have sinned.It does not mean that God has failed."

"From the Slobodan Milošević interview during the the Hague Tribunal : 'What are your hobbies?' [10w] "I enjoy gardening because weeding reminds me of ethnic cleansing."

"We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind."

"I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't."

"In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214)"

"Money [10w] The root of all evil has a well earned reputation."

"I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality."

"North Dakota Haiku "My bib overallslook spiffy at a weddingor a funeral."

"Fulfillment [10w] Sometime fulfillment goes beyond the date Amazon delivers your order."