In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work and look around you.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
God
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
God’s purpose in creating the universe was to feel happiness when He saw the purpose of goodness fulfilled in the Heavenly Kingdom, which the whole of Creation, including man, could have established.
-Scriptures "Divine Principle I.1.3.1"
All things belong to God, as do all places. I am forever a sacrifice to God.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
God created man incorruptible, and made him in the image of his own nature, but through the devil’s envy, death came into the world.
-Bible "Bible"
Without God, life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it; it is a body with no soul.
-Sathya Sai Baba "Sri Sathya Sai Baba"
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. One must practice the virtues taught in such books in order to acquire love of God.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa "Ramakrishna Paramahansa"
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
It is better to have God over your shoulder, than carry the world alone on your back.
-Anthony Liccione
