When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.
The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
All paths are paths to God, because, ultimately, there is no other place for the soul to go. Everything has come out of God and must go back to Him.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
God made mud. God got lonesome. So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up!" "See all I've made," said God, "the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars." And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.
Remember that you are an actor in a play, the character of which is determined by the Playwright... For this is your business, to play admirably the role assigned you; but the selection of that role is Another's.
Strive to give back the Divine in yourselves to the Divine in the All.
Know that you are the veil which conceals yourself from you. Know also that you cannot reach God through yourself, but that you reach Him through Him. The reason is that when God vouchsafes the vision of reaching Him, He calls upon you to seek after Him and you do.
We can therefore summarize Plato's overall position in words that would apply to any Nondual stance wherever it appears (as we have already seen it apply to Eckhart and Ramana): flee the Many, find the One; having found the One, embrace the Many as the One. Or, in short: Return to One, embrace Many.