Robert Breault Quotes

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• As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.
• I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.
• Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us.
• People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics.
• Occasionally ask, "What is the connection between what I want most in life and anything I plan to do today?
• One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever.
• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over.
• If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.
• In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must…
• In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work.
• I don't believe you really know God if you do not recognize His sense of humor.
• If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect?
• We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.
• There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.
• What is it that we all believe in that we cannot see or hear or feel or taste or smell — this invisible thing that…
• God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to…
• Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar.
• We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.
• If you don't watch out, putting on your unhappiness in the morning can become as instinctive as putting on your clothes.
• I don't think most people want to be unhappy. It's just something they've gotten good at.

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