As science advances, there seems to be less and less for God to do. It's a big universe, of course, so He, She, or It, could be profitably employed in many places. But what has clearly been happening is that evolving before our eyes has been a God of the Gaps; that is, whatever it is we cannot explain lately is attributed to God. And then after a while, we explain it, and so that's no longer God's realm.
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CATHERINE MCAULEY Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man. Th... JOSEPH LEWIS Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and th... MOHANDAS GANDHI A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words? W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some peo... BRAM STOKER And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the hu... DALLAS WILLARD ...to be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks him... DONALD MILLER It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like... JOYCE MEYER It is perhaps not entirely so, though it has often been said, that man makes his God in his own imag... ERIC HOFFER The task of the theologian is to explain everything through God, and to explain God as unexplainable... KARL RAHNER What is there to be jubilant about? ... We have a Supreme Court that has been essentially lawless in... EDWARD WHELAN Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with u... C. S. LEWIS Whatever the depth of our darkness, God navigated it eons before it was dark. And whatever the durat... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH There is no secret in attaining God. In the path of Enlightenment, any theoretical mystery-mongering... ABHIJIT NASKAR I was born subject like others to errors and defects, But never to the error of wanting to unde... ALBERTO CAEIRO To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe... CRISS JAMI For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA Even so, I’m somebody. I’m the Discoverer of Nature. I’m the Argonaut of true sensat... ALBERTO CAEIRO It just happens that a lot of us have been through too much that is even too less than our age..and ... TEMITAYO A Concluding a short series on prayer: He that seeks God in everything is sure to find God in everyt... WILLIAM LAW Faith in God, then, is not at all the same as the kind of logical certainty that we attain in Euclid... KALLISTOS WARE The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "... G.K. CHESTERTON It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you h... C.S. LEWIS Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566 God hath work to do in... JOHN OWEN Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. 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CARL SAGAN An atheist is someone who is certain that God doesn't exist, someone who has compelling evidence aga... CARL SAGAN Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is ... CARL SAGAN Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective. CARL SAGAN It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most sk... CARL SAGAN Once we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Univer... CARL SAGAN To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever. CARL SAGAN We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum st... CARL SAGAN It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men... CARL SAGAN If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world ... CARL SAGAN Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid ... CARL SAGAN Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs. CARL SAGAN We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands. CARL SAGAN Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing. CARL SAGAN We inhabit a universe where atoms are made in the centers of stars; where each second a thousand sun... CARL SAGAN You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals. CARL SAGAN Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soi... CARL SAGAN The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what... CARL SAGAN One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands... CARL SAGAN Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic. CARL SAGAN The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immen... CARL SAGAN If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a ... CARL SAGAN Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered lo... CARL SAGAN The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. CARL SAGAN we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers CARL SAGAN We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. CARL SAGAN