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"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
"Our National Motto - 'In God We Trust' - was not chosen lightly. It reflects a basic recognition that there is a divine authority in the universe to which this nation owes homage."
"To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just."
"No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him."
"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me."
"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."
"We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate."
"The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb."
"We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it is therefore true that there is a numerical infinity. But we know not of what kind; it is untrue that it is even, untrue that it is odd; for the addition of a unit does not change its nature; yet it is a number, and every number is odd or even (this certainly holds of every finite number). Thus we may quite well know that there is a God without knowing what He is."
"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
"Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of Jonah imperiled by the storm), some suffering is given not to correct past wrongs but to prevent future ones (as in the case of Joseph sold into slavery), and some suffering has no purpose other than to lead a person to love God more ardently for himself alone and so discover the ultimate peace and freedom."
"I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance."
"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer, the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. Tell your heart that the fear of suffering s worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with Eternity."
"Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward."
"God's hand never slips. He never makes a mistake. His every move is for our own good and for our ultimate good."
"You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively exists, and which I, in a wildly speculative way, am trying to capture. ... Even the great initial success of the quantum theory does not make me believe in the fundamental dice-game, although I am well aware that our younger colleagues interpret this as a consequence of senility. No doubt the day will come when we will see whose instinctive attitude was the correct one."
"Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair."
"Even if God exists, he's done such a terrible job, it's a wonder people don't get together and file a class action suit against him."
"Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?"
"The devil is God's ape!"
