Top 1200 God Delusion Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.

We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.

I'll pit my God against your god any day, I say to the Calvinists. It's not their god I'm praying to.... The God I'm praying to is neither male nor female. My God is the one who exists apart from all of men's agendas, the God who takes you away when there is no possible place you can go.

It's hard to differentiate between a vision and a delusion - both cause you to see things that no one else sees.

Intellectually I touched God many times as truth and emotionally I touched God as love. I touched God as goodness. I touched God as kindness. It came to me that God is a creative force, a motivating power, an over-all intelligence, an ever-present, all pervading spirit - which binds everything in the universe together and gives life to everything. That brought God close. I could not be where God is not. You are within God. God is within you.

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.

When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?

My life is devoted to self-delusion - and I have a great capacity for that - but it's the thing that gives me the most pleasure, so I can't complain about it.

One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve.

Where is the delusion when truth is known? Where is the disease when the mind is clear? Where is death when the Breath is controlled? Therefore surrender to Yoga.

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.

Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart.

God is constantly creating anew. And God also, invites us to be re-created and join the work of God as co-(re)creators. . . . Imagine the Kingdom of God as the creative process of God reengaging in all that we know and experience. . . . When we employ creativity to make this world better, we participate with God in the recreation of the world.

The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it.

The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic.

First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge.

You must go on to remind yourself of God - who God is, and what God is, and what God has done, and what God has pledged Himself to do.

Some people have views of God that are so broad and flexible that it is inevitable that they will find God wherever they look for him. One hears it said that 'God is the ultimate' or 'God is our better nature' or 'God is the universe.' Of course, like any other word, the word 'God' can be given any meaning we like. If you want to say that 'God is energy,' then you can find God in a lump of coal.

If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.

All who have lived according to God still live unto God, though they have departed this life. For this reason, God is called the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, since He is the God, not of the dead, but of the living

I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.

You who think of us: they lived only in delusion... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over.

Since Congress makes the laws they are under the delusion that anything they do is legal, no matter if it is unwise, unethical, or un-Constitutional.

I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.

A man who fails is funny... if my sketches teach anything, it is that, for the male, sex is a snare and a delusion. What's so corrupting about that?

Self-confidence means thinking all the time, "God is in me... God is doing every­thing . . . without God I cannot be . . . all this is God . . . I only want to think of God."

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.

Hearing, seeing and understanding each other, humanity from one end of the earth to the other now lives simultaneously, omnipresent like a god thanks to its own creative ability. And, thanks to its victory over space and time, it would now be splendidly united for all time, if it were not confused again and again by that fatal delusion which causes humankind to keep on destroying this grandiose unity and to destroy itself with the same resources which gave it power over the elements.

Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.

The idea that we're going to replace oil and natural gas with solar and wind, and nothing else, is a hallucinatory delusion.

You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes.

An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support.

Love is universal. You don't have to tell somebody that loving is better than hating. You don't have to believe in God to know that stealing is bad. All of God's children and their different faiths help to realize the immensity of God. No faith contains the whole truth about God. And certainly Christians don't have a corner on God. All of us belong to God.

Happy indeed are the arahants! No craving can be found in them. Cut off is the conceit 'I am,' Burst asunder is delusion's net.

God is real. God is here now. God is this moment revealed. For the most part, we are lost in the past and future world of the mind. To experience the living Presence of God in all things present, we will have come to where God is. We will have to become fully present. Otherwise we have no choice but to believe in God or disbelieve in God and neither is true, for the truth is beyond belief!

I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Well, what is God, then? God is that which watches. God is neither masculine nor feminine, although God can assume any form. God is that eternal reality that is in everything.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm a freak and they're not. But I'm actually not.

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.

A Christian should know that God is a Creator, that God is an entity that is all-powerful and all knowledgeable, God is everywhere and God is an entity filled with grace, love, compassion and forgiveness, that Jesus is the son of God and Jesus came on earth to explain to people in a very revolutionary way the nature of God, that God was not a stern judge who was keeping track of 600 or so rules and regulations that you had to keep in order to be acceptable to God.

The atheist does not say 'there is no God,' but he says 'I know not what you mean by God; I am without idea of God'; the word 'God' is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation. ... The Bible God I deny; the Christian God I disbelieve in; but I am not rash enough to say there is no God as long as you tell me you are unprepared to define God to me.

There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where.

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.

And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it is to generalize plunder under pretense of organizing it.

Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation.

A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.