I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-Jules Renard
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-Jules Renard
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
-Ayn Rand
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
-Edmond De Goncourt
For all who are led by the spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of sonship.
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.
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
-André Gide
God’s purpose in creating the universe was to feel happiness when He saw the purpose of goodness fulfilled in the Heavenly Kingdom, which the whole of Creation, including man, could have established.
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!...
The gods and demons were rivals of each other. The demons, swollen with pride, said, “In what, pray, should we place the oblation?” And they proceeded to place it in their own mouths.