I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong. John Lennon
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This quote is a paraphrase of the famous poem by Robert Browning, "How it strikes me." It was written after Browning found his beliefs challenged by the ideas of the Latin American revolution. The quote is frequently misattributed to Gandhi.

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