Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
-Thomas Jefferson
Quotations
God
God does not test you because he knows you completely - your past, present and future.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
-Saint Francis of Assisi "St. Francis of Assisi"
Christ was crucified once, but his teachings suffer crucifixion every day at the hands of men of limited vision. Christ’s teachings cannot be understood just by reading the Bible…but by living and trying out in everyday life the principles taught in the book.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
-A Spiritual Leader "Adyashanti"
Lord, give us joy in our families, and make us models for the rest.
-Quran "Quran 25.74"
The essence of the offering is that it be analogous to the sin, and that a man offer to God his desires and passions, for this is more acceptable than all.
-Scriptures "Zohar, Leviticus 9b"
Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-Galileo Galilei
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
-Salman Rushdie
"The Satanic Verses"
