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Quotes About Unfolding

Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose in order that the purpose may appear.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
God's grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me.
~ Bob Goff
God's concern is for His name, His glory, His people, His unfolding eternal purpose and for His Kingdom.
~ Alistair Begg
God to me is the universe unfolding.
~ Jan Phillips
The dreamer is the whole dream. For us, dreaming and imagination are coupled with action to treat our lives, our business and our relationships as a constant unfolding.
~ Tim Girvin
We inhabit a universe that is still inventing itself
~ Peter Corning
The expansion is inevitable.
~ Esther Hicks
All you need within you is waiting to unfold and reveal itself.
~ Eileen Caddy
The work of existence devours its own unfolding. What dissolves will dissolve-- you, reader, and I, and all our quick angers and longings.
~ Jane Hirshfield
Change isn't the end... It's an unfolding, the beginning of something different.
~ Jane Kirkpatrick
Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward greater agency, but toward less...We have surrendered the unfolding of a new technological age to a small elite who have seized the capability on offer. But while Renaissance kings maintained their monopoly over the printing press by force, today's elite is depending on little more than our own disinterest.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
~ E.E. Cummings
Behind the sometimes seemingly random or even chaotic succession of events in our lives as well as in the world lies concealed the unfolding of a higher order and purpose. This is beautifully expressed in the Zen saying "The snow falls, each flake in its appropriate place.
~ Eckhart Tolle
If you can recognize, even occasionally, the thoughts that go through your mind as simply thoughts, if you can witness your own mental-emotional reactive patterns as they happen, then that dimension is already emerging in you as the awareness in which thoughts and emotions happen — the timeless inner space in which the content of your life unfolds.
~ Eckhart Tolle
When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies.
~ Joel Hodgson
It wasn't until 1973 that Congress and journalists began to investigate 'Operation Menu,' around the same moment that the Watergate scandal was unfolding.
~ Greg Grandin
'Liberty Brass' is a small machine that unfolds in a single unpunctuated wave, which is interrupted by the rotating sign, the refrain. Each part is meant to do its work in relentless progression.
~ Edward Hirsch
The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned.
~ Francine Rivers
Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
~ A. R. Ammons
I swear to God, my career is like this weird origami thing.
~ Jimmi Simpson
Like evolution, it reuses all the old, successful parts of everything that has come before. Like evolution, it just means unfolding.
~ Richard Powers
Salvation is not a divine transaction that takes place because you are morally perfect, but much more it is an organic unfolding, a becoming who you already are, an inborn sympathy with and capacity for, the very One who created you.
~ Richard Rohr
From eighteen to fifty-five was the unfolding. Then, when it happened at fifty-five, they knew what they were born for. When that moment comes, it is great and it is all synchronicity. We know then that grace is at work and we are not manufacturing our own lives.
~ Richard Rohr
The biblical symbol of the Universal and Eternal Christ standing at both ends of cosmic time was intended to assure us that the clear and full trajectory of the world we know is an unfolding of consciousness with "all creation groaning in this one great act of giving birth" (Romans 8:22).
~ Richard Rohr