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Nor would He have created blue skies, nor sandy beaches nor stars above, nor beautiful flowers, nor falling snow, and on and on the list of clues goes. God wants to speak to us through all that H...

https://sacredtouches.com/2017/02/02/1352-if-god-had-wanted-to-be-a-big-secret-he-would-not-have-created-babbling-brooks-and-whispering-pines-robert-brault/

I hate to go mincing through life, afraid to take a single long step for fear somebody is watching. I want to “wave my wild tail and walk by my wild lone. ~Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of, amon...

https://sacredtouches.com/2016/06/27/1186-people-who-judge-others-say-more-about-who-they-are-than-those-they-judge-donald-l-hicks/

We three kings of Orient are; Bearing gifts we traverse afar, Field and fountain, moor and mountain, Following yonder star. O star of wonder, star of night, Star with royal beauty bright, Westwar...

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause and stand wrapped in awe, is ...

https://sacredtouches.com/2015/10/09/897-a-garden-must-combine-the-poetic-and-the-mysterious-with-a-feeling-of-serenity-and-joy-luis-barragan/

  Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter. ~Ansel Adams For the beauty of the earth, For the glory of the skies; For the love which from our birt...

https://sacredtouches.com/2015/09/19/876-photograph-a-picture-painted-by-the-sun-without-instruction-in-art-ambrose-bierce/

The finale: Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it. ~Claude Monet A man, his house...

https://sacredtouches.com/2015/07/30/824-my-garden-is-my-most-beautiful-masterpiece-i-must-have-flowers-always-and-always-claude-monet/

Is there a green too green Is there a wet too wet In a land that has suffered long, a drought. Is there a heaven too high Is there a ground too low In a world that has suffered much, for a Savior...

https://sacredtouches.com/2015/05/10/729-%E2%80%A8every-happening-great-and-small-is-a-parable-whereby-god-speaks-to-us-and-the-art-of-life-is-to-get-the-message-malcolm-muggeridge/

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings. ~Miles Franklin Have you ever pondered why we, any of us, blog? Or write books? Or pen poetry? Or compose music? Or draw? Or...

https://sacredtouches.com/2015/03/28/685-man-is-a-knot-into-which-relationships-are-tied-antoine-de-saint-exupery/

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. ~Lin Yutang The best things in lif...

https://sacredtouches.com/2015/03/21/678-who-is-rich-he-who-rejoices-in-his-portion-the-talmud/

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and ...

https://sacredtouches.com/2015/02/11/641-ill-love-you-dear-ill-love-you-till-china-and-africa-meet-and-the-river-jumps-over-the-mountain-and-the-salmon-sing-in-the-street-w-h-auden/