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Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in…

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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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The angels are thoughts of love sent from God. Since God is continuously expressing loving thoughts, there are an infinite number of… — Doreen Virtue
Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he… — Ramana Maharshi
Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source… — Thomas Aquinas
Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human… — Pope John Paul II
Taking into account these distinctions, in harmony with the Magisterium of my Predecessors[81] and in communion with the Bishops of the Catholic… — Pope John Paul II
Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better,… — Samuel Pepys
He took our flesh and our flesh became God, since it is united with God and forms a single entity with him.… — Gregory of Nazianzus
The whole meaning of morality is a rule that we ought to obey whether we like it or not. If so, then… — J. Budziszewski
There will never be beings unloved by God, since God is absolute love. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Numerous Christians do not know how to glorify God in their eating and drinking. They do not eat and drink simply to… — Watchman Nee
My God, since you are with me and since, by Your will, I must occupy myself with external things, please grant me… — Brother Lawrence
Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the… — Alcuin

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