The saint enjoys real attachment to God when he experiences states of contentment and satisfaction.
God Quotes
The writers with the most entries are not theologians: a Sufi saint, Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki, then Shakespeare, Homer, Pope and Ovid. The sourced lines are mostly sceptical ones. Bertrand Russell, in Religion and Science (1935), says that with omnipotence and millions of years he would not think Man much to boast of, and Shaw, in 1903, warns against the man whose god is in the skies.
Three famous sayings are marked disputed. Voltaire’s clockwork-and-clockmaker line has no firm source. Newton’s remark that the thumb would convince him of God is reported from a palmistry article in Dickens’s magazine All the Year Round (1864). “I looked and looked but I didn’t see God,” credited to Yuri Gagarin, is traced in the notes only to a 2006 book.
Communion with God is conferred after the dervish has become alien to all else.
Devotion to God and service to fellow beings is the pivot of life.
Renunciation of the World is the most essential mark of the spiritual journey to God.
How wonderful are the ways of the Lord (God); how sweet his mercies, how terrible his judgements!
Drink is in itself a good creature of God, but the abuse of drink is from Satan.
Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States!
I have needed God every day to defend myself against the abundance of thoughts.
Reflect upon the providence and wisdom of God in all created things and praise Him in them all.
Man is forming thousands of ridiculous relations between himself and God.
I am hell-bent for the South Pole — God willing and crevasses permitting.
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.