"That he is God, that we are also God, and that the only difference between
him and ourselves is that he is ever aware of, and lives fully in his truth,
where as we are unaware of our truth."
Sai Baba
"Often we find atheism both in individual and society a
necessary passage to deeper religious and spiritual truth: One has sometimes
to deny God in order to find Him."
Sri Aurobindo
"When the mind creates God's form, then the mind itself
becomes that form and God Himself will fill that form with Himself and His
Divinity."
Sai Baba
"God gave us memory that we might have roses in December."
James M. Barry
"Security is a false god; begin making sacrifices to it and you are lost."
Paul Bowles
"The divinity itself became his terror; for, obviously, if one is oneself
one's god, then God himself, the will of God, the power that would destroy
one's egocentric system, becomes a monster."
Joseph Campbell
"But the most dangerous is a type of thinking that would allow
a person to think they speak authoritatively and decisively for God."
Khaled El-Fadl, Professor of Islamic Law
-from "Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero"
"God has entrusted me with myself."
Epictetus
"The nature of God is a circle of which the center is
everywhere and the circumference is nowhere."
Empedocles
"There is no separation between us and God; we are divine
expressions of the creative principle on this level of existence."
Shakti Gawain
"God has no religion."
Gandhi
"And even as each one of you stands alone in God’s knowledge, so must each one
of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the
earth."
Kahlil Gibran
"If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise."
Goethe
"And to be open to faith takes vulnerability, and some people
aren't willing to do that because we've been burned - some literally - by
religion."
Reverand Joseph Griesedieck
"There is no room for God in him who is full of himself."
Hasidic Saying
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine
can do the work of one extraordinary man."
Elbert Hubbard
"I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal
experiences."
William James
"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of
himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."
Abraham Lincoln
"I have held many things in my hands
and I have lost them all;
but whatever I have placed in God's hands,
that I still possess."
Martin Luther
"We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's
creative pulse itself."
Joseph Chilton Pearce
"The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there."
George Bernard Shaw
"Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the
flame because day is come."
Rabindranath Tagore
"Prayer to be fruitful must come from the heart and must be able to touch the
heart of God."
Mother Teresa
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just
wish that He didn't trust me so much."
Mother Teresa
"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows
through."
Paul Valery
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
Voltaire