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"All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness."
"Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth."
"If there were no God, there would be no atheists."
"In a lot of minds, God is big enough to raise dead people, but He's not big enough to deal with our running."
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
"My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him."
"Worry about Allah and what He wants you to do and He will take care of your worries."
"I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous."
"When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all."
"He who is filled with love is filled with God himself."
"At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our life, which is inaccessable to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us."
"God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that."
"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
"With God, all things are possible."
"No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out."
"How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."
"If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments."
"The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth."
"Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen."
"The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold them as if they correspond to the reality of God is thus to construct a conceptual idol built from the materials of our mind."
