All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
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
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Some call on the Lord, “Rama”, some cry, “Khuda”, Some bow to Him as Gosain, some as Allah; He is called the Ground of Grounds and also the Bountiful, The Compassionate One and Gracious.
Grant me, O God, strength and courage to restrain the desires of my heart, that I may be free to possess you, Amen.
-Jesus Christ
By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more servants, but sons!
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
-Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk
"Invisible Monsters"
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
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.