The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
-Khalil Gibran
Quotations
God
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
-C. S. Lewis
The devotee engages to the best of his ability into the play of life, fulfilling his role on this earth as student, employee, husband, wife, parent, neighbor, and community servant. But at the heart of the devotee is a burning desire for the Lord.
-Sant Rajinder Singh "Sant Rajinder Singh"
The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
-A Spiritual Leader "Adyashanti"
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
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust. God watches them play and forgets the priest.
-Rabindranath Tagore "Rabindranath Tagore"
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 to heterosexuals. That doesn’t mean that God doesn’t love heterosexuals. It’s just that they need more supervision.
-Lynn Lavner "Lynn Lavner"
