Church of Christ

"The sun is the shadow of God."

"In my scientific discoveries I have learned more through the help of divine grace than through telescopes."

"I thank You, O my Creator and Lord, for all the joys You have allowed me to experience in the ecstasy into which the contemplation of the works of Your hands has carried me."

"Every creature reflects the Creator."

"Tonight I was absorbed in contemplating nature. I admired the number, arrangement, and movement of those countless spheres. But I admired even more the infinite Intelligence that presides over this vast mechanism. I said to myself: One must be truly blind not to be enraptured by this spectacle, foolish not to recognize its Author, and mad not to worship Him."

"The man who does not acknowledge God is a fool."

"The eternal God, the immense, all-wise, almighty God, has passed before me. I have not seen His face... but I have seen the traces of His passing."

"The more deeply I penetrate into the meaning of nature, the more profoundly I respect the Creator."

"The eye and the butterfly's wing are enough to annihilate an atheist."

"Write with one hand; with the other hold on to the robe of God, as a child holds on to his father's robe! Without this precaution you would inevitably be shattered against a rock."

"We are nothing compared with God; but through God we are something."

"If we do not acknowledge the existence of God as Christians, we must acknowledge it as mathematicians."

"The knowledge and reverence of God reach my spirit through paths as certain as those that lead us to truths in the physical realm."

"The greatness and infinite wisdom of the Creator of the world are recognized only by the one who strives to understand His thoughts in the infinite book of nature."

"Who can deny God when faced with a starry night, before the grave of loved ones, or before martyrdom, is either deeply unhappy or deeply guilty."

"The more I study, the more I acquire the faith of a peasant."

"It seems to me that I say too little by affirming that I believe in God: I say that I see Him. Without Him I see nothing; without Him everything is darkness. I have not only preserved this conviction through study, but have made it ever clearer and stronger... For me, atheism is an extravagance... But I would let my skin be torn from me before giving up my faith in God."

"The infinity that surrounds you and on which you find yourself, the laws of this infinity speak to you of God. To say that you do not see Him is like the ostrich that hides its head under its wings so as not to see."

"I am a man who admires all the engineers of the universe, and who has profound admiration for the greatest of them all, who is God."

"The more deeply we penetrate into the mechanism of nature, the more magnificent the reflection of divinity appears to us from afar, from the metaphysical sphere."

"Religion and science do not exclude each other, but complement and condition one another. And the proof is represented by the fact that precisely the greatest scientists of all time were deeply religious."

"Nature is a work of art... O God, great artist of the world! In amazement I admire the works of Your hands."

"Materialism is an absurd and irrational philosophy, and I believe that in reality it will be regarded as such by most thoughtful people."

"Man needs God as he needs water and oxygen."

"I believe in the power of prayer as a Christian and as a scientist."

"Science is incapable of explaining life; only faith can provide us with the meaning of existence: I am happy to be a Christian."

"This long history of life gradually becoming more perfect is precisely the creation of the living world. It is the activity of God, who plans and prepares everything, guides it and brings it to completion."

"The widespread opinion that I am an atheist is based on a great error. Whoever infers this from my scientific theories has not understood them."

"My religion consists of a humble worship of an infinite spiritual Being of a superior nature who reveals Himself in the small details that we can perceive with our weak and inadequate senses."

"Science without religion is paralyzed; religion without science is blind. Without religion, humanity would still be in a state of barbarism today... It was religion that enabled humanity to progress in every field."

"I believe in a personal God, and I can say with a clear conscience that in my life I have never subscribed to an atheistic conception."

"Anyone who has understood even a little of modern physics is immune to the absurdity of materialism."

"My greatest achievement has been faith."

"Without the light of Christ's doctrine, the fundamental problems of human nature are insoluble through science. Without that light, science is without peace."

"A great number of modern scientists are believers... Materialism is scientifically untenable."

"... Humanity's only salvation will be found in religion."

"The constituent elements of living beings are not the work of man, but the finest masterpiece ever accomplished by God, according to the principles of quantum mechanics."

"In all the creatures of the earth we discover the power of a thinking and inventive Spirit, whose activity proceeds tirelessly."

"After 75 years of incessant work, science must admit that all the formulas of the theory of 'chance' are pitiful."

"Science, which was materialistic in the last century, has become increasingly spiritual, to the point of becoming today the best ally of faith."

"Looking at nature in its grandest aspects and in its deepest and smallest structures, one senses a Thought at work in things, existing in absolute purity in itself."

"... From the Moon one can see the most wonderful spectacle of creation; one sees the Earth, the radiant imprint of the One who moves all things."

"The time of conflict between faith and science has now passed."

"In moments of suffering, only the presence of Christ has given me, and continues to give me, the strength to continue the good fight."

"It is not only untrue, but deliberately false, a lie, to say that science, particularly the natural sciences, has demonstrated that God does not exist."

"The greatest thinkers of all time were deeply believing... And how could it be otherwise?... Not only does nature reveal the Spirit of God to us, but so does man himself and his works, despite all the errors, temptations and sins to which we are subject as a consequence of our imperfection."

"Life owes its existence to a Principle that is foreign to matter; the purposeful character of the life process makes it clear that the Cause of the vital principle conceived of life purposefully..."

"I believe in a superior supernatural power, in a God, as the creator, bearer and sustainer of the world."

"The results of the most advanced science, physics, are in no way in contradiction with faith in a Power that is behind and above nature and governs it."

"Is there a God? Yes, I am sure there is a God, just as I am sure of anything else. I am certain that there is a God just as I am certain that I exist."

"New knowledge still leaves room for an intelligence actually operating behind the phenomena of nature... Without faith, civilization would collapse, order would turn into disorder... Evil would reign unhindered in the world."

"I see order and purpose everywhere around me in the inorganic world. I cannot believe that they exist through fortunate random combinations of atoms! To me, this design presupposes an intelligence; I call this intelligence God..."

"If God does not exist, everything is permitted," Dostoevsky prophesied a century ago. Our generation is experiencing this bitter truth firsthand.

"Without the sun I am nothing; without God you are nothing."