The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
-Khalil Gibran
Quotations
God
If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
-Woody Allen
All things belong to God, as do all places. I am forever a sacrifice to God.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
-Blaise Pascal
Chant the name of God with heartfelt devotion. Everything else is just a pompous worldly show.
-Sri Guru Granth Sahib "Guru Granth Sahib"
When a man in the process of dreaming becomes conscious that he is dreaming, he is no longer identified with the phenomena; he is not affected exultantly or dolefully. God consciously dreams His cosmic play and is unaffected by its dualities.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
Burnt offerings, sacred feasts, intense meditations, puja and taking millions of cleansing baths at sacred shrines of pilgrimage: the merits of all these can be obtained by enshrining Lord within your heart for a fraction of a second.
-Sri Guru Granth Sahib "Guru Granth Sahib"
Realise your oneness with God, remaining continually intent on identifying with its nature, and joyfully drink the bliss of God within, for what use is there in other, empty things?
-Adi Shankara "Adi Shankara"
I see God in every human being.
-Mother Teresa
The only God worth talking about is a God that cannot be talked about.
-Walter Kaufmann
