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
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
-Salman Rushdie
"The Satanic Verses"
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
-Joseph Roux
"Meditations of a Parish Priest”"
Even the gods love jokes.
-Plato "Plato"
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
-Issac Newton
A person once asked me in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: “Tell me, when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?” We must always consider the person.
-Pope Francis "Pope Francis"
Love is the firstborn, loftier than the gods, fathers and men. You, O Love, are the eldest of all, altogether mighty. To you we pay homage!...
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
In truth, there was only one Christian and he died on the cross.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
-Anne Lamott
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust. God watches them play and forgets the priest.
-Rabindranath Tagore "Rabindranath Tagore"
