I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.
-Voltaire
I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.
-Voltaire
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust. God watches them play and forgets the priest.
The Guru believes in one God. They believe that all the gurus are the same as Nanak
God first created light, all men are born out of it. The whole world came out of a single spark; who is good and who is bad? The Creator is in the creation, and the creation in the Creator, He is everywhere.
How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960"
No one can be a slave of two masters. You cannot serve both God and money.
-Jesus Christ
Likewise the spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. And he who searches the hearts of men knows the mind of the spirit, because the spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
-John Fowles
"The French Lieutenant's Woman"
Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.
-Criss Jami