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"If I meet the Christian Deity, I am lost: He is a tyrant and as such, is full of ideas of vengeance; His Bible speaks of nothing but fearful punishments. I never loved Him! I could never even believe that anyone did love Him sincerely. He is devoid of pity.... He will punish me in some abominable manner."
"For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such as private charity, the establishment of schools and hospitals, and the abolition of slavery."
"The Congress of the United States, in recognition of the unique contribution of the Bible in shaping the history and character of this Nation, and so many of its citizens, has by Senate Joint Resolution 165 authorized and requested the President to designate the year 1983 as the 'Year of the Bible.'"
"Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country, providing them with the strength, character, convictions, and faith necessary to withstand great hardship and danger in this new and rugged land. These shared beliefs helped forge a sense of common purpose among the widely dispersed colonies - a sense of community which laid the foundation for the spirit of nationhood that was to develop in later decades."
"Even the lowest of the low have the Atman (Soul) inside, which never dies and never is born, immortal, without beginning or end, the all pure, omnipotent and omnipresent Atman!"
"An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible."
"Once one has seen God, what is the remedy?"
"God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself."
"There is not a moment when I do not feel the presence of a Witness whose eye misses nothing and with whom I strive to keep in tune."
"God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship."
"God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken."
"I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan."
"If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?"
"I believe in absolute oneness of God and therefore also of humanity."
"The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause."
"He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove, the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love."
"God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires."
"Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth."
"One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth."
"Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God."
