Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. One must practice the virtues taught in such books in order to acquire love of God.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa "Ramakrishna Paramahansa"
Quotations
God
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa "Ramakrishna Paramahansa"
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
-Thomas Paine
Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.
-Robert Brault "Robert Brault"
Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
The Gods gave a microbe a drop of water, and in it he lived. They gave an ant a half acre of land, and he prospered. They gave a tiger the forest and he formed an empire and became an emperor. They gave man the Universe and all the knowledge therein. He entered of his own free will the dungeon of Dogma, shut his mind to truth and slew and starved his brothers.
-Scriptures "The Book of Right Feeling"
How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960"
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.
-Sathya Sai Baba "Sri Sathya Sai Baba"
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
-Issac Asimov
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments; they are like part of God.
-Pandit Ravi Shankar "Pandit Ravi Shankar"
