In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work and look around you.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
God
You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
-Anne Lamott
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!...
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
Chant the name of God with heartfelt devotion. Everything else is just a pompous worldly show.
-Sri Guru Granth Sahib "Guru Granth Sahib"
God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine.
-David Nicholas
If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
The devotee engages to the best of his ability into the play of life, fulfilling his role on this earth as student, employee, husband, wife, parent, neighbor, and community servant. But at the heart of the devotee is a burning desire for the Lord.
-Sant Rajinder Singh "Sant Rajinder Singh"
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"
In truth, there was only one Christian and he died on the cross.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.
-Robert Brault "Robert Brault"
