Pasquier Quesnel (1634–1719) French theologian
44th Proposition, as translated by Mary Ilford in The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1968), pp. 118-119
Meher Baba’s Call (1954)
Context: God is all. God knows all, and God does all. When the Avatar proclaims he is the Ancient One, it is God who proclaims His manifestation on earth. When man utters for or against the Avatarhood, it is God who speaks through him. It is God alone who declares Himself through the Avatar and mankind.
Pasquier Quesnel (1634–1719) French theologian
44th Proposition, as translated by Mary Ilford in The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1968), pp. 118-119
“God is in me or else is not at all (does not exist).”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia
Sallustius Roman philosopher and writer
XII. The origin of evil things; and that there is no positive evil.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
Context: If evil exists it must exist either in Gods or minds or souls or bodies. It does not exist in any God, for all god is good. If anyone speaks of a "bad mind" he means a mind without mind. If of a bad soul, he will make the soul inferior to body, for no body in itself is evil. If he says that evil is made up of soul and body together, it is absurd that separately they should not be evil, but joined should create evil.
Attar of Nishapur (1145–1230) Persian Sufi poet
"All Pervading Consciousness"
Context: Yet what are seas and what is air? For all
Is God, and but a talisman are heaven and earth
To veil Divinity. For heaven and earth,
Did He not permeate them, were but names;
Know then, that both this visible world and that
Which unseen is, alike are God Himself,
Naught is, save God: and all that is, is God.
James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China
(J. Hudson Taylor. A Ribband of Blue and Other Bible Studies. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 49).
“My system does not make sense at all, but by God it’s working.”
Eliyahu M. Goldratt (1947–2011) Israeli physicist and management guru
Goldratt, E. M. (1990). What is this thing called theory of constraints and how should it be implemented? New York: North River Press. p. 28
“God loves us all, and all of us are equal in God's sight.”
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 56
Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972) writer and salonist
In "Gods", ADAM International Review, No. 299 (1962)