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However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine…

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When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to…
Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling…
The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter…
Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.
I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.
Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they…
Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum…
I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience…
The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than…
Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to…
Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries…
I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should…

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We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the… — Saint Basil
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the… — Joseph Addison
The yoga we practice is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of… — Sri Aurobindo
The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding… — Joseph Priestley
God's nature is revealed most perfectly in the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, as recorded in the New Testament of… — George F. R. Ellis
As you awaken to your divine nature, you'll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience. — Wayne Dyer
God's entire divine nature is wholly and entirely in all creatures, more deeply, more inwardly, more present than the creature is to… — Martin Luther
When you judge others, look at yourself - You too have flaws and the divine nature has accepted you with all your… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full… — Martin Luther
For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the… — Janine Benyus
It is the responsibility of each human being today to choose between the force of darkness and the force of light. We… — Maurice Strong
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent… — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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