The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
-Swami Vivekananda
Quotations
God
Realise your oneness with God, remaining continually intent on identifying with its nature, and joyfully drink the bliss of God within, for what use is there in other, empty things?
-Adi Shankara "Adi Shankara"
Heaven means to be one with God.
-Confucius
God does not test you because he knows you completely - your past, present and future.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
-Saint Francis of Assisi "St. Francis of Assisi"
God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"The Poisonwood Bible"
God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
-Voltaire
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
-Ayn Rand
The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
-Khalil Gibran
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
-Swami Vivekananda
