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Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called on to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.
Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.”
within . . . causing unrest in the masses. Write this down. Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government’s façade of infallibility, and you remove its people’s faith.”
“Very little in any organized faith is truly original. Religions are not born from scratch. They grow from one another. Modern religion is a
But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?
Show me proof there is a God, you say. I say use your telescopes to look to the heavens, and tell me how there could not be a God!”
Do you not see God in your science? How can you miss Him! You proclaim that even the slightest change in the force of gravity or the weight of an atom would have rendered our universe a lifeless mist rather than our magnificent sea of heavenly bodies, and yet you fail to see God’s hand in this?
Have we become so spiritually bankrupt that we would rather believe in mathematical impossibility than in a power greater than us?
“Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows.”
“I am not questioning God’s power! It is God who gave us reason and circumspection! It is God we serve by exercising prudence!”
God is not some omnipotent authority looking down from above, threatening to throw us into a pit of fire if we disobey. God is the energy that flows through the synapses of our nervous system and the chambers of our hearts! God is in all things!”
