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.
-Scriptures "Zohar, Leviticus 9b"
Quotations
God
-Scriptures "Zohar, Leviticus 9b"
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Burnt offerings, sacred feasts, intense meditations, puja and taking millions of cleansing baths at sacred shrines of pilgrimage: the merits of all these can be obtained by enshrining Lord within your heart for a fraction of a second.
-Sri Guru Granth Sahib "Guru Granth Sahib"
People do not know what the name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify your mind completely…
-A Spiritual Leader "Swami Ramdas"
He is the living One; there is no god but He: call upon Him, giving Him sincere devotion.
-Quran "Quran 40.65"
If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
Everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if is received with thanksgiving: for then it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.
-Bible "1 Timothy 4.3-5"
I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.
-Ravi Zacharias
"Has Christianity Failed You?"
I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.
-Voltaire
Christ was crucified once, but his teachings suffer crucifixion every day at the hands of men of limited vision. Christ’s teachings cannot be understood just by reading the Bible…but by living and trying out in everyday life the principles taught in the book.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
