The mind which is alert, watchful, which is free of fear, is an innocent mind; and it is only the innocent mind that can understand reality, truth or God. —Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things More about this quote Tags: truth understanding reality God mindfulness fear innocence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: God intelligence intellect spontaneity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us. —Samuel Butler More about this quote Tags: life God enjoyment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that. —Joseph Campbell More about this quote Tags: understanding God religion thought Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute? —Annie Dillard More about this quote Tags: God religion church Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid. —Carl Sagan More about this quote Tags: God knowledge certainty stupidity atheism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer. —Carl Sagan in Cosmos More about this quote Tags: God evolution paleontology Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained. … They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. —Walt Whitman More about this quote Tags: life God peace animals whining Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. —Emily Dickinson More about this quote Tags: God presence reclusiveness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what’s important. —Joseph Campbell More about this quote Tags: God mystery deity transcendence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol. —Dietrich Bonhoeffer More about this quote Tags: God existence idols proof Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I do not believe in God, but I have a sense of the infinite. —Robert Desnos More about this quote Tags: wonder God perception belief infinite Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved. —Vivien Leigh More about this quote Tags: love God gratitude Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. —Voltaire More about this quote Tags: God humor philosophy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward him. —Meister Eckhart More about this quote Tags: God purpose Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email