You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
-Swami Vivekananda
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
-Swami Vivekananda
Love is the firstborn, loftier than the gods, fathers and men. You, O Love, are the eldest of all, altogether mighty. To you we pay homage!...
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
-Salman Rushdie
"The Satanic Verses"
I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
-Albert Camus
"Notebooks 1951-1959"
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"
Without God, life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it; it is a body with no soul.
All things belong to God, as do all places. I am forever a sacrifice to God.
God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"The Poisonwood Bible"
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.
By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more servants, but sons!