I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.
-Voltaire
I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.
-Voltaire
The essence of the offering is that it be analogous to the sin, and that a man offer to God his desires and passions, for this is more acceptable than all.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-Voltaire
Life is like a book with three chapters. Two are already written by God - Birth and Death. The chapter in the middle is empty; fill it with your smile, love and faith.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
-Swami Vivekananda
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
-Voltaire
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"
You have come from God, you are a spark of His Glory, you are a wave of that Ocean of Bliss; you will get peace only when you again merge in Him.
God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"The Poisonwood Bible"
If you say that God is good, great blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this: God is.
-Bernard Of Clairvaux