The devotee engages to the best of his ability into the play of life, fulfilling his role on this earth as student, employee, husband, wife, parent, neighbor, and community servant. But at the heart of the devotee is a burning desire for the Lord.
God does not test you because he knows you completely - your past, present and future.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
-Thomas Paine
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
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
What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.
-Albert Einstein
A person once asked me in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: “Tell me, when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?” We must always consider the person.
So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name.
The problem’s name is God.
-Salman Rushdie
"The Satanic Verses"
If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
-Woody Allen
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
-Abraham Lincoln
