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.
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"
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.
The gods and demons were rivals of each other. The demons, swollen with pride, said, “In what, pray, should we place the oblation?” And they proceeded to place it in their own mouths.
No God in this world can be so narrow-minded that he needs to be appeased by
sycophancy or worship, and if he does gets pleased and favours you, then he
cannot be God... He can only be the devil.
-Deep Trivedi
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
-C. S. Lewis
Food to a large extent is what holds a society together and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences.
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.
Before leading your life depending upon God, just check, does he really have
the authority to be partial and do any good for you?
-Deep Trivedi
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
-John Fowles
"The French Lieutenant's Woman"