To you, I’m an atheist. To God, I’m the loyal opposition.
-Woody Allen "Woody Allen"
To you, I’m an atheist. To God, I’m the loyal opposition.
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.
A person once asked me in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: “Tell me, when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?” We must always consider the person.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
-Issac Newton
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
-Swami Vivekananda
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
-Salman Rushdie
"The Satanic Verses"
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"
The essence of the offering is that it be analogous to the sin, and that a man offer to God his desires and passions, for this is more acceptable than all.
For what can be known about God is plain to all, because God is plain to all, because God has shown it to them. Ever since creation of the world His invisible nature, namely His eternal power has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made.