It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
-Thomas Jefferson
Quotations
God
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
-Blaise Pascal
God is never tired of bringing the sun out every morning, taking it in the evenings and bringing out the moon.
-Jaachynma N. E. Agu
"The Prince and the Pauper"
God enters by a private door into every individual.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chant the name of God with heartfelt devotion. Everything else is just a pompous worldly show.
-Sri Guru Granth Sahib "Guru Granth Sahib"
I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.
-Ravi Zacharias
"Has Christianity Failed You?"
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
-Salman Rushdie
"The Satanic Verses"
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
-Henry David Thoreau
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
I have found God, but he is insufficient.
-Henry Miller
"Tropic of Cancer"
