What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
—J. G. Holland
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
—James Lileks
I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.
—Jewish Proverb
God must become an activity in our consciousness.
—Joseph Chilton Pearce
We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.
—Margaret Atwood
Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.
—Mary Daly
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
—Matthias
Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.
—Unknown
You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.
—Gordon Atkinson
If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.
—Mahatma Gandhi
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
—Charles Morgan
In the Buddhist view, I depend on you for my existence. All things depend on each other, equally. Welcome to the doctrine of dependent origination. It's teeter-totter metaphysics—I arise, you arise; you arise, I arise. Forget about our presumed Maker, the divine machinist in the sky. Take a look at this moment right now. You are you because you are not something else; therefore, what you are not—the chair beneath you, the air in your lungs, these words—births you through an infinity of opposites. It's like the ultimate Dr. Seuss riddle: Without all the things that are not you, who would you be you to? There's no Higher Power in this system to grab on to for support; we are all already supporting each other. Pull a person or people the wrong way and you immediately redefine yourself in light of what you've done to your neighbor.
—Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
—Arthur Young
Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
—Antoine Lavoisier
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
—Alexander Pope