Top 1200 God Delusion Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.

Some people say: "There is no God; because, if there was a God, God would stop all the suffering." Nonsense! God is oblivious to suffering. God is beyond suffering. That's what makes God, God, by definition.

The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality.

For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.

Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.

There is only one true purpose in life: to wake up from the delusion that you are separate from everything else.

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions.

I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.

The fundamental delusion of human beings is the belief that we exist separately and independently from the rest of the universe.

I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.

I lived so completely in my mind - a place of unchecked delusion and complete fantasy!

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

The central question is, Are the leaders of the future truly men and women of God, people with an ardent desire to dwell in God's presence, to listen to God's voice, to look at God's beauty, to touch God's incarnate Word and to taste fully God's infinite goodness.

'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at a given time?'

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion

What I've found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion.

But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make him out to be.

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.

Delusion is not good; better to be realistic and then surprise yourself if you're lucky.

...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here (pointing to himself) and you are out there.

I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.

Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.

There are two gods. The god our teachers teach us about, and the God who teaches us. The god about whom people usually talk, and the God who talks to us. The god we learn to fear, and the God who speaks to us of mercy. The god who is somewhere up on high, and the God who is here in our daily lives. The god who demands punishment, and the God who forgives us our trespasses. The god who threatens us with the torments of Hell, and the God who shows us the true path. There are two gods. A god who casts us off because of our sins, and a God who calls to us with His love.

If the suns come down, and the moons crumble into dust, and systems after systems are hurled into annihilation, what is that to you? Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self, the God of the universe. Say - "I am Existence Absolute, Bliss Absolute, Knowledge Absolute, I am He," and like a lion breaking its cage, break your chain and be free forever. What frightens you, what holds you down? Only ignorance and delusion; nothing else can bind you. You are the Pure One, the Ever-blessed.

All political spendings for purposes beyond the protection of life and property are a snare and a delusion.

There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He who propagates god is a scoundrel. He who worships god is a barbarian.

Why does everybody have to be with somebody? It’s a stupid delusion and a really pathetic way of thinking.

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

I'll settle for successful during my lifetime because at least I can be conscious of the delusion that it means something.

Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.

To ignore the religious nature of the terrorist threat is to succumb to politically correct delusion.

The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day

Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!

From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.

This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens

Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.

Nondistraction means not being lost in subtle undercurrents of delusion or indifferent stupor.

God felt, God tasted and enjoyed is indeed God, but God with those gifts which flatter the soul, God in darkness, in privation, in forsakenness, in sensibility, is so much God, that he is so to speak God bare and alone. Shall we fear this death, which is to produce in us the true divine life of grace?

It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.

In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.

There isn't any delusion. It is absolutely clear that this body energy is a genuine phenomenon of some kind.

Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine.

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots.

My delusion outweighs my talent by far and it always will, because if it doesn't, then there's no point in living.

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

If I don't measure up as an American writer, at least leave me to my delusion.

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.

We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.