Richard Dawkins book The God Delusion
Source: The God Delusion (2006), p. 57 of the Black Swan paperback edition of 2007
The God Delusion (2006)
Richard Dawkins book The God Delusion
Source: The God Delusion (2006), p. 57 of the Black Swan paperback edition of 2007
“Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) Russian author
Kirilov, Part III, Ch. VI, "A busy night"
The Possessed (1872)
Meher Baba (1894–1969) Indian mystic
"How to Love God" (12 September 1954).
General sources
Context: When I say I am the Avatar, there are a few who feel happy, some who feel shocked, and many who hearing me claim this, would take me for a hypocrite, a fraud, a supreme egoist, or just mad. If I were to say every one of you is an Avatar, a few would be tickled, and many would consider it a blasphemy or a joke. The fact that God being One, Indivisible and equally in us all, we can be nought else but one, is too much for the duality-conscious mind to accept. Yet each of us is what the other is. I know I am the Avatar in every sense of the word, and that each one of you is an Avatar in one sense or the other.
It is an unalterable and universally recognized fact since time immemorial that God knows everything, God does everything, and that nothing happens but by the Will of God. Therefore it is God who makes me say I am the Avatar, and that each one of you is an Avatar. Again, it is He Who is tickled through some, and through others is shocked. It is God Who acts, and God Who reacts. It is He Who scoffs, and He Who responds. He is the Creator, the Producer, the Actor and the Audience in His own Divine Play.
Swami Adbhutananda Disciple
Source: God Lived with Them, p.437
“I am glad that he thanks God for anything.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
1755
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 867
Context: There is not a fellow under the sun who is my disciple. On the contrary, I am everybody's disciple. All are the children of God. All are His servants. I too am a child of God. I too am His servant.