Life is God’s painting

• Art is everywhere you look for it, hail the twinkling stars for they are God’s careless splatters.  El Greco
• Consciousness itself is the greatest painter. The entire world is a Picture.  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
• A Hawaiian sunset is God painting His storyboard on the sky.  Bethany Hamilton
• Each moment of your life is a brush stroke in the painting of your life.  Wilferd Peterson
• The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.  Dan Brown
• Nature is like a canvas, a painting of countless options and possibilities. Malidoma Patrice Some
• Sunlight is painting. Nathaniel Hawthorne
• God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does he make only one star shine onto the earth. Eberhard Arnold
• God is the master painter of this universe. He has placed every vein in every leaf. He has sown every seed in the earth. He has painted the colorus of every fish, bird, and animal. He has placed millions of shining stars in our night sky. He turns a blue sky into a starburst of red, orange, and purple at dusk. He has carved out canyons and rivers. He has even made us uniquely beautiful. God has designed the universe, and He governs the universe. What makes you think that He doesn’t know what He is doing in your life?  Hunter Greene
• I see a painter painting a picture. The picture I call the world, the painter I call God. I am neither. I do not create, nor am I created. I contain all, nothing contains me. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
• I see the world as a great big painting, full of lines and shapes and colors, to look at and enjoy.  Do you see what I see?  Helen Borten
• Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion, not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Inanimate objects are paintings on the canvas of mind, while living beings are particular segments of the canvas. One is a painting on the canvas, the other is a part of the canvas itself. You, I, other people, and all living beings, are dissociated segments of the one mind behind all nature. Inanimate objects are paintings on that mind. Bernardo Kastrup
• No need to fix what God already put his paint brush on J. Cole
• The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.  Dogen
• The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.  Dan Brown
• The mind is like a canvas on which the various objects of the universe appear to be painted. Tipura Rahasya
• The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.  Leonardo da Vinci
• The painting represents life and the brushstroke represents the steps we take in life.  St. Lucia
• The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later. Joan Miro
• This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings…scenes on a canvas…of which I am the witness. Swami Vivekananda
• Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity. Ravi Zacharias
• We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds, glimpses of his image.  Max Lucado
• We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the stroke of His brush. Jean-Pierre de Caussade
• When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art. Paul Cezanne
• When we dwell on the past, we tend to want to live there. When we dream of the future, we want to go there. Our dreams are where God paints a picture of a life waiting to be created. Erwin McManus
• White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.  G.K. Chesterton
• You are a paintbrush in hands of the Artist.  Heidi Baker
• A great artist does not put paint on canvas, he puts himself on canvas.  Jacob Lawrence
• As artist Nature splashes color across the vast canvas of the sky with the radiance and splendor of sunrise and sunset. She arches rainbows against the passing storm, creates flowers and foliage, sets autumn woods on fire with the beauty of turning leaves and touches mountaintops with snow crystals.  Wilferd Peterson
• God has the whole world as His canvas. He paints souls. Meher Prabhu
• God, through the power of infinite imagination, paints the world with himself splashing pure perception (thought, emotion, sensation, sight, taste) onto an epic canvas.  Anthony Lambert
• Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. Alexis Carrel
• The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.  Dan Brown
• A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.   Corina Kent
• How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random.  John Guare

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Each of us is a canvas on which God paints

• I am a canvas of my experiences, my story is etched in lines and shading…  Kat Von D
• Be Bold. It’s just canvas, just paint. If it doesn’t work for you, paint over it and start again.  Tiko Kerr
• Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory.  Rajneesh
• Life is a big ol’ canvas. And you have every combination of colors to paint with.  Oprah Winfrey
• Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can. Danny Kaye
• Life is a canvas of experience.  Janet Fitch
• Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.  Vanna Bonta
• Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.  Danny Kaye
• Lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity.  Robin Sharma
• No one but ourselves can keep us from dancing with life instead of goose-stepping. In every moment recognizing our own creative imagination, the living picture we paint on the canvas of our lives. Everything is imagination. And imagination is freedom, but it can also be conditioning, bondage.  Surya Das
• On the canvas of life, Every sweep of the brush matters, Counts for something.  Scott Hastie
• The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.  Louise Hay
• The mind is the canvas on which the Spirit of God can paint.  Bill Johnson
• Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.  Voltaire
• God’s grace is painted on the canvas of despair. T. D. Jakes
• Christians believe in a sovereign God who never says “Oops”. We believe that all our days … are divine strokes on the canvas of our lives by the Master Artist who certified his skill, his power, and his love in the Masterpiece of Calvary.  John Piper
• My faith is that I don’t believe in fate! We are not puppets or zombies of destiny. We are the main painters of our life’s canvas.  Mehmet Murat Ildan
• You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at.  Cheryl Richardson
• The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator’s mind.  Okakura Kakuzo
• Throw away those little pieces of paper. Get yourself a big, beautiful canvas. Bring from this nature the most beautiful colors. Find the serene scene within. Find the joy in each corner of your life. Sit still and feel what is within you. Sit still and paint like you have never painted before.  Prem Rawat
• We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the stroke of His brush.  Jean-Pierre de Caussade
• What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.  Jean-Paul Sartre
• With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.  Oprah Winfrey
• A blank canvas…has unlimited possibilities.  Stephanie Perkins
• Each family prayer, each episode of family scripture study, and each family home evening is a brushstroke on the canvas of our souls.  David A. Bednar
• The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will  Lewis H. Lapham
• This world is but a canvas to our imagination.   Henry David Thoreau
• This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings…scenes on a canvas…of which I am the witness. Swami Vivekananda
• Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of mind, body and the soul.  Amit Ray