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"I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better."
"I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt."
"I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil."
"No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we have worked to be healthy, wealthy, comfortable with friends and family, and successful with our career — something will inevitably ruin it."
"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you."
"It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures."
"God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency."
"The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired."
"If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it."
"I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all, Teddy said. It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean."
"God is not outside this earthly case of ours."
"It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion."
"There is no greater spellbinder of peace than the name of God."
"As soon as we become one with the ocean in the shape of God, there is no more rest for us, nor indeed do we need rest any longer."
"Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands."
"The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism."
"God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through."
"How can He be perfect? Everything He ever makes...dies."
"I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world."
"Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.' At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them."
