"I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least."
-- Walt Whitman
"When one says 'God' without truly practicing virtue, 'God' is nothing but a word."
-- Plotinus
"It's the experience of God that matters, not just the belief in God."
-- Marianne Williamson
"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction."
-- Richard Dawkins
"Love is the every only God."
-- e.e. cummings
"When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them."
-- Martin Buber
"God has no religion."
-- Gandhi
"God loves all men but is enchanted by none."
-- Isaac Asimov
"The love of God is the essence of all spiritual discipline."
-- Ramakrishna
"We're a dance of energy, arranged and held in the mind of God."
-- Stephen Gaskin
"Knowing God is at the heart of endless happiness."
-- Yehuda Berg
"The heart is pregnant with God and the prophets are midwives."
-- Rumi
"Power that's from God doesn't impose itself on anyone ... doesn't force."
-- Stephen Gaskin
"If you don't heed the cry of a dog on a chain, how do you expect God to hear your cries."
-- Jack Kerouac
"Love of the world does not diminish but enhances dynamic, irresistible, burning love of God."
-- William McNamara
"The finding of God is a coming to oneself."
-- Aldous Huxley
"No action or condition actually separates us from God -- but the experience of actions and conditions tends to awaken the presumption of separation from God."
-- Da Free John
"Pain is God's megaphone to the deaf."
-- C.S. Lewis
"As a butterfly lost in the flower,
As a bird settled on the tree,
As a Child fondling mother's breast,For sixty-seven years of this world
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