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
Quotations
God
Offer your gratitude to God. Then you will feel that inside you a sweet, fragrant and beautiful flower is growing. That is the flower of humility.
-Sri Chinmoy "Sri Chinmoy"
God is taking a nap within my soul. I ponder whether to wake Him or not.
-Harley King
He is the living One; there is no god but He: call upon Him, giving Him sincere devotion.
-Quran "Quran 40.65"
God enters by a private door into every individual.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"The Poisonwood Bible"
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
-Friedrich Nietzsche
If it be true that spirit is involved in Matter…then manifestation in the divine in himself and the realisation of God within and without are the highest and most legitimate aims possible to man on earth.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.
-Annie Dillard
"Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters"
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
-Issac Newton
