Quotes from Robert Breault

If there's anything better than a God-given talent, it's a God-given day job.

If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies.

We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.

If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect?

Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.

So I said to myself, "There but for the grace of God go I," only to realize I was looking in a mirror and had seriously overestimated the grace of God.

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

Science can reconstruct Tyrannosaurus Rex from a fossilized bone and a fancied footprint, but it can't reconstruct God from the whole of creation.

We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.

There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.

As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.

To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.

In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.

To have success, you can't let failure stop you. To have great success, you can't let success stop you.

I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system.

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

Be happy, and a reason will come along.

Sometimes we don't find the thing that will make us happy because we can't give up the thing that was supposed to.

There are many things I do for amusement, but for happiness I like to gather up my memories and go for a walk in the rain.

Whatever you put aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it.

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.

Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories.

What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.

We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.