From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
-Salman Rushdie
"The Satanic Verses"
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
-Salman Rushdie
"The Satanic Verses"
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-Voltaire
To uphold righteousness, so supreme an act did he perform; he gave his head, but did not utter a word of sorrow. For the sake of righteousness, he did this great heroic deed; he laid down his life but not the principles… Guru Tegh Bahadur broke his earthly vase on the head of the Emperor of Delhi – and went to the abode of God.
To whom praise and blame are equal, who is silent, content with every fortune, home-renouncing, steadfast in mind, and worships Me, that person is dear to me.
Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to take or refuse. The task is to find it, develop it and use it.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
A virtuous person fears God without being afraid of him.
-Immanuel Kant
The One who, himself without colour, by the manifold application of his power distributes many colours in his hidden purpose, and into whom, it’s end and it’s beginning, the whole world dissolves - He is God!
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
-Albert Einstein
If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
-Woody Allen