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
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
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
Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
He is the living One; there is no god but He: call upon Him, giving Him sincere devotion.
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.
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
You have come from God, you are a spark of His Glory, you are a wave of that Ocean of Bliss; you will get peace only when you again merge in Him.
I have found God, but he is insufficient.
-Henry Miller
"Tropic of Cancer"
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.
The symbolism of the Goddess is not a parallel structure to the symbolism of God the Father. The Goddess does not rule the world. She is the world, manifest in each of us, she can be known internally by every individual, in all her magnificent diversity.