A virtuous person fears God without being afraid of him.
-Immanuel Kant
Quotations
God
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.
-Sri Guru Granth Sahib "Guru Granth Sahib"
Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
-Jim Elliot
Far better it is for you to say: I am a sinner, than to say: I have no need of religion. The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.
-Fulton J. Sheen
"Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary"
Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.
-Robert Brault "Robert Brault"
To uphold righteousness, so supreme an act did he perform; he gave his head, but did not utter a word of sorrow. For the sake of righteousness, he did this great heroic deed; he laid down his life but not the principles… Guru Tegh Bahadur broke his earthly vase on the head of the Emperor of Delhi – and went to the abode of God.
-A Spiritual Leader "Guru Gobind Singh"
The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.
-Annie Dillard
"Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters"
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
-Swami Vivekananda
God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.
-James McBride
"The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother"
Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.
-Robert "Bob" Pierce
