From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
-Salman Rushdie
"The Satanic Verses"
Quotations
God
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work and look around you.
-Leo Tolstoy
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"
Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.
-Sathya Sai Baba "Sri Sathya Sai Baba"
On the Disc, the Gods aren't so much worshipped, as they are blamed.
-Terry Pratchett
"The Color of Magic"
Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.
-Robert Brault "Robert Brault"
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?"
The sincere devotee loves God deeply whether he is non-active and silently meditating on God, or in the midst of a whirl of outer activities.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
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"
