The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
-Socrates
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
-Socrates
The Gods gave a microbe a drop of water, and in it he lived. They gave an ant a half acre of land, and he prospered. They gave a tiger the forest and he formed an empire and became an emperor. They gave man the Universe and all the knowledge therein. He entered of his own free will the dungeon of Dogma, shut his mind to truth and slew and starved his brothers.
And if God had not repelled some men by others, the earth would have been corrupted.
It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.
-Joseph Joubert
Likewise the spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. And he who searches the hearts of men knows the mind of the spirit, because the spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
-Swami Vivekananda
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.
God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"The Poisonwood Bible"
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
-Swami Vivekananda
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