“The only way to show a true respect for God is to act morally while ignoring God’s existence.”
A History of God (1993)
Source: A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
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“True superstition is ignorant honesty & this is beloved of god and man.”
1780s, Annotations to Lavater (1788)
As quoted in Hindu Psychology : Its Meaning for the West (1946) by Swami Akhilananda, p. 204
Gergely Kovács, the new Archbishop of Transylvanian Catholics https://transylvanianow.com/this-is-my-diocese-i-am-coming-home-says-new-leader-of-transylvanian-catholics-archbishop-gergely-kovacs/ (February 23, 2020)
“To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.”
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), V : The Rationalist Dissolution
Context: To believe in God is to long for His existence and, further, it is to act as if he existed; it is to live by this longing and to make it the inner spring of our action.
Context: To believe in God is to long for His existence and, further, it is to act as if he existed; it is to live by this longing and to make it the inner spring of our action. This longing or hunger for divinity begets hope, hope begets faith, and faith and hope beget charity. Of this divine longing is born our sense of beauty, of finality, of goodness.
“A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.”
Source: You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day
“If God exists, God can be experienced; but only by you.”
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
“The true work of God is all good, since it is existence.”
Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.10
