Famous Quotes

"I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in."

Salman Rushdie on God

More quotes about God

• "Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."

  Abraham Lincoln on God

• "We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls."

  Mother Teresa on God

• "When the solution is simple, God is answering."

  Albert Einstein on God

• "While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."

  Maya Angelou on God

• "Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God."

  Lawrence Welk on God

More quotes by Salman Rushdie

• "The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes."

• "If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up."

• "Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall."

• "What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."

• "Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms."