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Philip Gulley is an American author known for his novels with religious and moral themes. His works often explore themes of peace, tolerance, and community values.

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“Sometimes what we think we need isn’t what we need at all, and what gets thrown in for good measure is that which fills our hearts.”

Joy Chance Gratitude Blessing Blessings Good Fortune Divine Providence

Book:Home to Harmony

Source: Home to Harmony

“Instead of viewing God as one who helps me accomplish my purposes, it is now my joy to help God accomplish the divine purpose - seeking the best for others and seeking the growth of the beloved, which is to say everyone.”

Helping Joy Purpose Growth Christianity Divine Seeking Accomplish Beloved Help Me Divine Purpose

Author:Philip Gulley

“We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause us to fear and hate, knowing when we are in the grip of a great fear, we will abandon common sense and wisdom, we will forsake the hard-won lessons of time and experience.”

Firsts Hard Wisdom Hate Causes Common Support Courage Knowing Wise Lessons Seeking Common Sense Abandon Being Wise Forsake

Author:Philip Gulley

“Reality has a long history of not altering itself to make us happy or comfortable.”

Long Reality Comfortable Realism

Author:Philip Gulley

“But spirituality, it seems to me, when answering the question, "Why should I be good? Why should I care for others?" says, "Because that is the best, most fulfilling way to live" Whether or not you receive an award or a payment is incidental. You are good and kind and loving because it is right, even though it is difficult sometimes. It fulfills the highest law, to treat others as we wish to be treated.”

Way Should Kind Sometimes Seems Care Law Spirituality Wish Difficult Highest Treats Be Good Treated Awards Should I I Care Fulfilling Payment Way To Live

Author:Philip Gulley

“People feel guilty enough at funerals without having more guilt heaped on. I would prefer a bighearted preacher giving my eulogy, someone inclined to widen heaven's doors. I don't want to leave folks wondering whether I made it.”

People Want Giving Feels Made Enough Heaven Wonder Doors Guilt Folks Guilty Made It Funeral Preacher Eulogy

Book:For Everything a Season: Simple Musings on Living Well

Source: For Everything a Season: Simple Musings on Living Well

“I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden of unbridled desires, we can enjoy what we have, celebrate what we've attained, and appreciate the familiar. For if we can't be happy now, we'll likely not be happy when.”

Ifs Joy Desire Enjoy Wonder Sorrow Gratitude Appreciate Strive Burden Familiar Celebrate Bridges Anxious Gratefulness Chasms

Author:Philip Gulley

“Too many times we pray for ease, but that's a prayer seldom met. What we need to do is pray for roots that reach deep into the Eternal, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won't be swept asunder.”

Needs Fall Prayer Wind Praying Mets Eternal Rain Roots Blow Ease

Book:Front Porch Tales: Warm Hearted Stories of Family, Faith, Laughter and Love

Source: Front Porch Tales: Warm Hearted Stories of Family, Faith, Laughter and Love

“Love, even that love which is imagined, is sometimes all we have to get us through.”

Sometimes

Author:Philip Gulley

“In the end . . . . . . . Stand where we feel led. Stand straight, stand tall, and try to remember that other folks might be led to stand elsewhere.”

Feels Trying Ends Might Remember Folks Tall Elsewhere

Book:Home to Harmony

Source: Home to Harmony

“We just never know. We think we do. We think we have life figured out, and in our arrogance we become hard. But life has a way of humbling us, of softening us.”

Thinking Knows Way Hard Arrogance Humbling

Book:Home to Harmony

Source: Home to Harmony

“Raw pain alarms. us. It reminds us that life isn't as orderly as we'd hoped. We demand that pain settle down before we shuffle it off to the quiet table. We want pain to stay in its own little section, want to keep it from spilling over into the other parts of life. Just like . lunch trays. Keep pain in its own little compartment.”

Want Littles Pain Quiet Demand Tables Settling Lunch Sections Alarms Parts Of Life Orderly Settling Down Shuffle Spilling Trays

Book:Home to Harmony

Source: Home to Harmony

“There are things we see with our eyes, sitting high and looking out. And there are things we see with our hearts, sitting still and looking in.”

Heart Stills Eye Sitting Sitting Still

Book:Signs and Wonders

Source: Signs and Wonders

“There’s danger in thinking joy is a matter of location. If we can’t find joy where we are, we probably won’t find it anywhere.”

Ifs Thinking Matter Joy Danger Location

Book:Home to Harmony

Source: Home to Harmony

“When love takes you by the hand and leaves you better, that is home. That's the place to stake your claim and build your life.”

Home Hands Claims Stakes

Book:Home to Harmony

Source: Home to Harmony

“Write letters to your grandmother. She will love it. And leave you money in her will.”

Writing Letters Grandmother Your Grandmother

Author:Philip Gulley

“When we are honest, we admit how agreeable it can feel to be singled out for favored treatment. The biggest barrier to equality for all is that inequality for some feels good.”

Feels Honest Feel Good Inequality Treatment Barriers Equality For All

Author:Philip Gulley

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Home to HarmonyRelated source material

For Everything a Season: Simple Musings on Living WellRelated source material

Front Porch Tales: Warm Hearted Stories of Family, Faith, Laughter and LoveRelated source material

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