To whom praise and blame are equal, who is silent, content with every fortune, home-renouncing, steadfast in mind, and worships Me, that person is dear to me.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwad Gita 12.15-19"
To whom praise and blame are equal, who is silent, content with every fortune, home-renouncing, steadfast in mind, and worships Me, that person is dear to me.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
-Salman Rushdie
"The Satanic Verses"
The symbolism of the Goddess is not a parallel structure to the symbolism of God the Father. The Goddess does not rule the world. She is the world, manifest in each of us, she can be known internally by every individual, in all her magnificent diversity.
So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name.
The problem’s name is God.
-Salman Rushdie
"The Satanic Verses"
It is difficult to know why God reveals Himself to some and plays the game of hide-and-seek with others.
-Baba Ram Dass
Anyone that is fallen into the grip of lust, wrath, or attachment…by contemplation of the Supreme Being, with a moment’s remembrance of God shall he be saved.
One who serves and seeks no recompense finds union with the Lord. Such a servant alone takes the Master’s guidance, says Nanak, As on him is divine grace.
It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.
-Joseph Joubert
The only God worth talking about is a God that cannot be talked about.
-Walter Kaufmann
God is that infinite all of which man knows himself to be a finite part.
-Leo Tolstoy