God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

If I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

My message is that God is a good God.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

I dote on his very absence.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

I was being trained because I wanted to be a preacher like my father. I wanted to talk about Moses; I wanted to talk about God… I wanted to talk about the apostles, the disciples and all that.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

Heaven means to be one with God.

God’s mercy is fresh and new every morning.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

Solitude is independence.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.