To you I’m an atheist. To God I’m the loyal opposition.
-Woody Allen
Quotations
God
No God in this world can be so narrow-minded that he needs to be appeased by
sycophancy or worship, and if he does gets pleased and favours you, then he
cannot be God... He can only be the devil.
-Deep Trivedi
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
-Henry David Thoreau
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
-John Fowles
"The French Lieutenant's Woman"
I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
-Albert Camus
"Notebooks 1951-1959"
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.
-Pope Francis "Pope Francis"
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-Galileo Galilei
God does not test you because he knows you completely - your past, present and future.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Likewise the spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. And he who searches the hearts of men knows the mind of the spirit, because the spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
-Bible "Romans 8.26-27"
Food to a large extent is what holds a society together and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences.
-George Armelagos "Peter Farb and George Armelagos"
