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.’
God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
-Voltaire
I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
-Albert Camus
"Notebooks 1951-1959"
Love is the firstborn, loftier than the gods, fathers and men. You, O Love, are the eldest of all, altogether mighty. To you we pay homage!...
How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960"
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
-Albert Einstein
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!
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
-Thomas Paine
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.
He is the living One; there is no god but He: call upon Him, giving Him sincere devotion.
