Accidents Quote by Edward Gibbon

Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.

— John Milton

Nature is the direct expression of the divine imagination.

— John O'Donohue

There is a spiritual godliness that drifts naturally through the affairs of man, but it is visible only if actions are undertaken and performed…

— Stuart Wilde

On any occasion when one can discover the cause of events, one should not resort to the gods.

— Polybius

“But when a belief vanishes, there survives it — more and more ardently, so as to cloak the absence of the power, now lost…

— Marcel Proust

To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen.

— Richard Lewontin

“But when a belief vanishes, there survives it—more and more vigorously so as to cloak the absence of the power, now lost to us,…

— Marcel Proust

There is no event so commonplace but that God is present within it, always hiddenly, always leaving you room to recognize Him or not…

— Frederick Buechner

Nature is saturated with Deity.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every phenomenon manifests itself of its own accord. This manifestation is always distinct from form, and is the essence of the immediate, the trace…

— Yves Klein

“In the religious myths, the creative will appears personified in God, and man already feels himself guilty when he assumes himself to be like…

— Otto Rank

Everytime we say that god is the author of some phenomenon, that signifies that we are ignorant of how such a phenomenon was caused…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley