The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
-Swami Vivekananda
Quotations
God
The Self-realised soul can impart knowledge unto you and when you have thus learned the truth, you will know that all living beings are but a part of Me-and that they are in Me, and are Mine.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita
God laughs when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each other, ‘This side is mine and that side is yours.’ He laughs and says to Himself, ‘The whole universe belongs to me, but they say they own this portion or that portion.’
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa "Ramakrishna Paramahamsa"
You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
-Rick Warren
Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.
-Robert Brault "Robert Brault"
I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.
-Voltaire
The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.
-Annie Dillard
"Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters"
Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
-Jim Elliot
Devotion to God’s Name is my lamp; In this lamp is poured the oil of suffering. The light of realisation burns away this oil…Vast loads of firewood are reduced to ashes by a tiny spark of fire.
-Scriptures "Adi Granth"
You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
-Anne Lamott
