“You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.”
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.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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.”
A popular internet misattribution.[citation needed] A number of variants of the "rain on your parade" theme appear, with different sources
Misattributed
Steps to Christ (1892) http://www.whiteestate.org/books/sc/sc.asp, p. 93
Entering the Castle : An Inner Path to God and Your Soul (2007), p. 85
“Red rain is coming down.
Red rain.
Red rain is pouring down,
Pouring down all over me.”
Red Rain
Song lyrics, So (1986)
“If "thank you" is the only prayer you can utter in your lifetime, that would be enough.”
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