"God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is truth, not untruth. God alone is great."
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"When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be."
"God makes crooked straight for us and sets things right when they seem to go dead wrong."
"Where love is, there God is also."
"To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable or invisible is to deny God."
"God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable."
"God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption."
"I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. . . . I know God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in everyone."
"God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance."
"If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way."
"A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat."
"I believe in God, not as a theory but as a fact more real than life itself."
"Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-"
"The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones."
"There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other."
"Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had grounds for thinking that the powers held traditionally to be the exclusive property of the gods might one day be ours. 5"
"So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant."
"God is action, complete with mistakes, fumblings, persistence, agony. God is not the power that has found eternal equilibrium, but the power that is forever breaking every equilibrium, forever searching for a higher one."
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject."
"Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it."