“You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.”
Kim Edwards book The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Love is a Radiant Light: The Life & Words of Saint Charbel (2019)
“You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.”
Kim Edwards book The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Garth Brooks (1962) American country music artist
When You Come Back to Me Again, written by Jenny Yates and G. Brooks.
Song lyrics, Scarecrow (2001)
“Pray, hope, and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.”
Padre Pio (1887–1968) Italian saint, priest, stigmatist and mystic
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
A popular internet misattribution.[citation needed] A number of variants of the "rain on your parade" theme appear, with different sources
Misattributed
Ellen G. White (1827–1915) American author and founder/leader of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Steps to Christ (1892) http://www.whiteestate.org/books/sc/sc.asp, p. 93
Caroline Myss (1952) author from the United States
Entering the Castle : An Inner Path to God and Your Soul (2007), p. 85
“Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.”
Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
“Red rain is coming down.
Red rain.
Red rain is pouring down,
Pouring down all over me.”
Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian
Red Rain
Song lyrics, So (1986)
“If "thank you" is the only prayer you can utter in your lifetime, that would be enough.”
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian
Very commonly attributed to Eckhart on the internet and some publications, the source of the first formulation however is: A Bucket of Surprises (2002) by J. John and Mark Stibbe.
Disputed