Life is God’s tapestry

• Could we not also refer to God as “sewing” our relationships with the thread of compassion, “stitching” our responsibility-laden lives with calm strength, even “embroidering” our days with beauty?   Carolyn Jane Bohler
• God is weaving His tapestry according to his own grand design. All flesh is in His hands. We have no need to fear. We have no need to worry. Our imperative need is to be found doing our duty.  Gordon B. Hinckley
• God’s everywhere and we are all different. That’s the beauty of it-the sheer diversity. What a tapestry to enjoy.  Adam Williams
• Heaven is going to be a vast, colorful tapestry of living things. God is a God of life….Does this seem too childish and silly to believe? I certainly hope so, because that’s a sure sign that it’s true.  Anthony DeStefano
• I have come to believe that we do not walk alone in this life. There are others, fellow sojourners, whose journeys are interwoven with ours in seemingly random patterns, yet, in the end, have been carefully placed to reveal a remarkable tapestry. I believe God is the weaver at that loom.  Richard Paul Evans
• I pray that I am sufficiently stirred by the rumor of great things to seek the God who created this single thread that I am, and to marvel at a vision magnificent enough to cause this God to weave from this single thread a tapestry most resplendent.  Craig D. Lounsbrough
• In looking back over the years we can discover how a red thread goes through the pattern of our life: the Will of God.  Maria von Trapp
• It will be very interesting one day to follow the pattern of our life as it is spread out like a beautiful tapestry. As long as we live here we see only the reverse side of the weaving, and very often the pattern, with its threads running wildly, doesn’t seem to make sense. Some day, however, we shall understand. In looking back over the years we can discover how a red thread goes through the pattern of our life: the Will of God.  Maria von Trapp
• It’s only when you turn a tapestry over that you see the art: the rich colours, the texture, and the patterns that can make a tapestry a thing of astonishing beauty.  Likewise, occasionally God gives us a glimpse at what He is weaving into the fabric of our lives. That momentary peek at glory gives us the courage to soldier on, knowing that nothing happens by accident. Michael Hyatt
• Its substance was known to me. The crawling infinity of colours, the chaos of textures that went into each strand of that eternally complex tapestry…each one resonated under the step of the dancing mad god, vibrating and sending little echoes of bravery, or hunger, or architecture, or argument, or cabbage or murder or concrete across the aether. The weft of starlings’ motivations connected to the thick, sticky strand of a young thief’s laugh. The fibres stretched taut and glued themselves solidly to a third line, its silk made from the angles of seven flying buttresses to a cathedral roof. The plait disappeared into the enormity of possible spaces.  Every intention, interaction, motivation, every colour, every body, every action and reaction, every piece of physical reality and the thoughts that it engendered, every connection made, every nuanced moment of history and potentiality, every toothache and flagstone, every emotion and birth and banknote, every possible thing ever is woven into that limitless, sprawling web. It is without beginning or end. It is complex to a degree that humbles the mind. It is a work of such beauty that my soul wept…I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.  China Miéville
• No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there’s always a thread of grace.  Mary Doria Russell
• Not only does God stitch and alter, but most certainly, God also mends.   Carolyn Jane Bohler
• One of the days we unpack finding out how your kids are wired, what kind of intelligence has God given them, how do they give and receive love, what the passions of their life, how does their birth order and their gender affect them because all of those things are part of the tapestry that God is weaving together to use each of our children for His glory.  Stephen Kendrick
• Only Heaven will reveal the top part of God’s tapestry.  Corrie Ten Boom
• Our stories affect one another whether we know it or not. Sometimes obedience isn’t for us at all, but for another. We don’t know how God holds the kingdom in balance or why he moves a chess piece at a crucial time; we might never see the results of his sovereignty […] I might just be one shade of one color of one strand, but I’m a part of an elaborate tapestry that goes beyond my perception.  Jen Hatmaker
• Pain and suffering are the dark strands through the tapestry of your life, providing the shadows that give depth and dimension to the masterpiece God is fashioning within you.  Joseph Girzone
• We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God’s light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence. John Piper
• We’re each single threads woven together in a tapestry God has created. Only he sees the full picture, but not even a sparrow falls without his knowing. Francine Rivers
• When we embrace the many parts of our experience we discover a magnificent creation. . . . Every moment is but a thread, a thread of consciousness embracing the very essence of life. Some threads are brilliant and dazzling while others are tattered and torn. When looked upon in isolation the tattered threads look inferior. Yet when woven together by the wondrous hands of the Creator, the light magically blends with the dark. As joy coalesces with pain, God creates the magnificent tapestry that is life.  Debbie Milam
• No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which every thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another thread and is held and supported by a hundred others.  Rainer Maria Rilke
• Peter used to say that an artist’s job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You make sense out of senseless facts. You puzzle together bits of everything. You shuffle and reorganize. Collage. Montage. Assemble.  Chuck Palahniuk

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Each of us is a thread in the tapestry

• Each of us has a purpose for living beyond our own survival and pleasure. Every individual is like a thread in a beautiful tapestry with a vital contribution to make, not only to the sustenance of life as we know it, but in the creation and development of more beneficial expressions of life.  John Templeton
• Everybody’s story is important in this huge tapestry we are weaving.  Sarah Van Landuyt
• It makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us. We’re midway through the loom, that’s the present, and what we do casts the thread in a particular direction, and the picture of the tapestry changes accordingly. When we begin to to try to make a picture pleasing to us and to those who come after, then perhaps you can say that we have seized history.  Kim Stanley
• Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.  Albert Einstein
• On the great canvas of time, we all create our own masterpiece, Choreographing our steps across minutes and hours, Dancing over the days, Painting pictures over months and Writing our stories on the years. Singing our songs that echo across eons. We are all a thread in the talent tapestry. A snapshot in the cosmic, collective collage. Michele Jennae
• Our differences in beliefs do not truly separate us,  or elevate us over others. Rather, they highlight the rich tapestry that is humanity.  George Takei
• The evolution of the universe depends on the participation of each and every person. . . From your soul’s perspective, you are as great an addition to the world as Mahatma Gandhi or Mother Teresa, and subtracting you from the cosmic equation would be just as great a loss. The most exquisite silk remains intact if you pull out a thread, but the snag will show.  Deepak Chopra
• We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.  Rainer Maria Rilke
• We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.  Maya Angelou

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Life is a tapestry

• As I look back at the entire tapestry of my life, I can see from the perspective of the present moment that every aspect of my life was necessary and perfect. Each step eventually led to a higher place, even though these steps often felt like obstacles or painful experiences.  Wayne Dyer
• As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done; I have to look ahead.  Isabel Allende
• Don’t leave a ‘good time’ to chance. Experiences have to be woven with care and planning, like a tapestry.  Jim Rohn
• Each moment is a tapestry of ever-changing, seamless experiencing. Everywhere you look, hear, feel, sense, touch, taste, and smell, perception is happening immediately and inseparably to awareness.  Scott Kiloby
• Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one’s life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot.  Neal Shusterman
• I realised through my visions that everything in my life had been perfectly orchestrated. Nothing was by mistake and everything was divinely ordained. I saw that my little life was actually part of a larger divine tapestry, almost infinite in scale. Everything I was thinking, saying and doing was part of the Whole and affecting the Whole. I was shown that my relatively insignificant life was actually of infinite value in the Grand Scheme of Things like an exquisite note in a cosmic symphony. Everyone has a part to play and how we play it is up to us. Aimee Davies
• If only certain things had been preventable, his life would have unfurled in front of him as intended, like a lush Oriental carpet. No surprises, no detours. Just a thick tapestry of days and nights that at the end of his time on earth, he could roll up and proudly claim as his own.  Shilpa Agarwal
• In the tapestry of life, we’re all connected. Each one of us is a gift to those around us helping each other be who we are, weaving a perfect picture together.  Anita Moorjani
• Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.  Sherrilyn Kenyon
• Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible.  Madame de Stael
• Lives interweave with other lives, and out of the tapestry arise hints at answers to questions that raze to the bone of life: What are the building blocks of character, of contentment, of lasting achievement? How does a person come into self-possession and sovereignty of mind against the tide of convention and unreasoning collectivism? Does genius suffice for happiness, does distinction, does love?  Maria Popova
• Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.  Isabel Allende
• Now is the time to enliven, ennoble and enrich your life’s tapestry.  Enoch Onuoha
• Our lives were a complex tapestry, and our woven strands were only meant to intersect at a small number of points in the time-conceived whole. An embroidered starburst, a missed warp, a complicated notion on the loom of time. We were always together, but meant to live our majorities apart, two golden threads wandering through a haunted textile life.  Courtney M. Privett
• Our right hemisphere, it thinks in pictures and it learns kinesthetically through the movement of our bodies. Information … explodes into this enormous collage of what this present moment looks like, smells like and tastes like, what it feels like and what it sounds like.  Jill Bolte Taylor
• Regular maps have few surprises:  their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps we make ourselves, of our city, our place, our daily world, our life; those maps of our private world we use every day; here I was happy, in that place I left my coat behind after a party, that is where I met my love; I cried there once, I was heartsore; but felt better round the corner…, things of that sort, our personal memories, that make the private tapestry of our lives.  Alexander McCall Smith
• She who reconciles the ill-matched threads Of her life, and weaves them gratefully Into a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hall And clears it for a different celebration. Rainer Maria Rilke
• Since the tapestry of all time has already been woven, everything I could ever want to happen in my life already exists in that infinite, nonphysical plane. My only task is to expand my earthly self enough to let it into this realm. So if there’s something I desire, the idea isn’t to go out and get it, but to expand my own consciousness to allow universal energy to bring it into my reality here.  Anita Moorjani
• Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that – one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
• The day will come when you will review your life and be thankful for every minute of it. Every hurt, every sorrow, every joy, every celebration, every moment of your life will be a treasure to you, for you will see the utter perfection of the design. You will stand back from the weaving and see the tapestry, and you will weep at the beauty of it.  Neale Donald Walsch
• The human mind has a desire to know its place in the universe and the role we play in the tapestry of life. This is actually hardwired into our brains, the desire the know our relationship to the universe. This was good for our evolution, since it enabled us to see our relationship to others and to nature which was good for our survival. And it is also what drives our curiosity to understand the universe.  Michio Kaku
• The idea of being part of this tapestry of humanity is a far more enlightening idea for me than believing you are going to this different place when you die. The magic of reality is far more potent.  Matthew Healy
• The tapestry of my life was a ruin of unravelling threads. The brightest parts were a nonsensical madman’s weaving. And now every day was a grey stitch, laid down with an outpatient’s patience, one following the next following the next, a story in lines, like a railway track to nowhere, telling absolutely nothing. Alexis Hall
• Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and the genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in the radiant tapestry of being. This relationship is not external or extrinsic to our identity but wells up as the defining truth from our deepest being.  Elizabeth A. Johnson
• Your intent weaves the tapestry of the universe.  Deepak Chopra
• We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone… and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.  Sandra Day O’Connor
• Time unfolds beauty, wonder, and mystery to reveal the auspicious tapestry of life.  A.D. Posey
• Think of all your experiences as a huge tapestry that can be laid out in whatever pattern you wish. Each day you add a new thread to the weaving. Do you craft a curtain to hide behind, or do you fashion a magic carpet that will care you to unequaled heights?  Tony Robbins
• There are patterns which emerge in one’s life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians say the greatest sonatas are composed; whether or not it is true, I do not know, but of a surety I have seen it emerge in the tapestry of my life.  Jacqueline Carey
• There is no such thing as society, there is a living tapestry of men and women and the beauty of that tapestry, and the quality of our lives, will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and to turn round and help, by our own efforts, those who are unfortunate. There’s no such thing as entitlement unless someone has first met an obligation.  Margaret Thatcher
• My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever changing view.  Carole King
• If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.  Joe McNally
• Behind each biography there should always be a rich treasury of unformulated knowledge, a tapestry that has not been unrolled.  Iris Origo

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The world is a tapestry

• A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry, and only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.  Leo Buscaglia
• A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is nothing that is an accident. You are a special combination for a purpose — and don’t let them tell you otherwise, even if they tell you that purpose is an illusion. (Live an illusion if you have to). You are that combination so that you can do what is essential for you to do. Don’t ever believe that you have nothing to contribute. The world is an incredibly unfulfilled tapestry. And only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.  Leo Buscaglia
• Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.  Dan Brown
• The majority of individuals view their surroundings with a minimal amount of observational effort. They are unaware of the rich tapestry of details that surrounds them, such as the subtle movement of a person’s hand or foot that might betray his thoughts or intentions.  Joe Navarro
• The more that you travel the more you get the sense of the word as a larger place and the more you get a sense of the variety of history and mythology. And when you know about these things you can incorporate them into what I feel is a more rich and more large tapestry of fantasy.  Cassandra Clare
• Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tapestry from which no thread can be pulled without destroying the integrity of the cloth. Dean Koontz

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Nature is a tapestry

• The book of nature is a fine and large piece of tapestry rolled up, which we are not able to see all at once, but must be content to wait for the discovery of its beauty, and symmetry, little by little, as it graduallly comes to be more and more unfolded, or displayed.  Robert Boyle
• The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries – a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents in the fabric; it can even, after a time, cope with major disasters like floods, fires, and earthquakes. What nature cannot cope with is the steady undermining of its fabric by the activities of man.  Gerald Durrell
• Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.  Richard P. Feynman
• Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living. Don McLean

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Friendship is a tapestry

• Beautiful and rich is an old friendship, Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory, Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry Where light has lingered, intimate and long. Full of tears and warm is an old friendship That asks no longer deeds of gallantry, Or any deed at all- save that the friend shall be Alive and breathing somewhere, like a song.  Eunice Tietjens
• Friendship for me is made from a tapestry of personalities, each of whom shares a part of all I care about.  Jacquelyn Mitchard

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Relationships are a tapestry

• The less you demand total fulfillment from relationships, the more you can appreciate them for the beautiful tapestries they are, in which absolute and relative, perfect and imperfect, infinite and finite are marvelously interwoven. You can stop fighting the shifting tides of relative love and learn to ride them instead. And you come to appreciate more fully the simple, ordinary heroism involved in opening to another person and forging real intimacy.  John Welwood
• Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it’s a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over if you have the right materials, circumstances, and patience to repair it. If you don’t, you’re always the one who feels the coldest when winter comes.  A.J. Darkholme
• A family stitched together with love seldom unravels.  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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Language is a tapestry

• A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.  Giacomo Leopardi
• Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.  Miguel de Cervantes
• I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of words to describe a curl of the lip, a tilt of the chin, a change in the atmosphere. Done well, novel-writing can combine lyricism with practicality in a way that makes one think of grand tapestries, both functional and beautiful. Fifty years from now, I imagine I’ll still be questing after just that right combination of words.  Lauren Willig

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History is a tapestry

• The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.  Dorothea Dix
• The tapestry of history is woven of many threads. Jacqueline Carey
• The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its reverse side.  In truth, tragedy and comedy are the twin masks of history – its mass appeal.  Jose Ortega y Gasset
• The truly awesome intellectuals in our history have not merely made discoveries; they have woven variegated, but firm, tapestries of comprehensive coverage. The tapestries have various fates: Most burn or unravel in the footsteps of time and the fires of later discovery. But their glory lies in their integrity as unified structures of great complexity and broad implication.  Stephen Jay Gould
• The universe is a trillion, trillion threads moving in seemingly unrelated directions. Yet when you look at them together, they create a remarkable tapestry.  Richard Paul Evans

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Destiny is a tapestry

• Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.  Zelda Popkin
• Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.  Rainer Maria Rilke
• Karma is the tension of the thread in the human tapestry.  Jeffery Taylor
• Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history to the eye.  John Flavel
• Since the tapestry of all time has already been woven, everything I could ever want to happen in my life already exists in that infinite, nonphysical plane. My only task is to expand my earthly self enough to let it into this realm. So if there’s something I desire, the idea isn’t to go out and get it, but to expand my own consciousness to allow universal energy to bring it into my reality here.  Anita Moorjani

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The mind is a tapestry

• The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.  Carson McCullers
• We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.  Joseph Chilton Pearce

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The collective mind is a tapestry

• The collective mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colours are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect. Carson McCullers