“The great spirit is in all things.”
– Big Thunder Wabanaki, Algonquin
“The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul.”
– Chrysippus
“There is one great law throughout nature.”
– Cleantes
“I looked for God [Tengri] I went to a temple and I did not find him [It] there. Then I went to a church and I did not find [It] there. The I went to a mosque and I did not find him [It] there. Then finally I looked in my heart and there he [It] was.”
– Rumi
“We worship only that, and we expect help only from that.”
– Holy Quran
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
– Carl Sagan
“Nature is nothing else but God and the divine reason pervading the whole and animating it.”
– Seneca
“Becoming someone who believes in God is fairly easy… The real challenge is to become someone in whom God believes.”
– Dücane Cündioğlu
“Every part of me then will be reduced by change into some part of the universe, and that again will change into another part of the universe, and so on – forever.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can’t speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees.”
– Qwatsinas (Hereditary Chief Edward Moody), Nuxalk Nation
“If there’s only one god, then your god is also the god of your enemy.”
― Benno Van Der Toren, Doordenken Over God
“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us.”
– John Lennon
“The Big Bang in no way contradicts the idea of a creator God. In fact, it lends support to it. The universe had a beginning, and that beginning requires a cause. That cause, whatever it was, we call God.”
– Robert Jastrow
“The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources.”
– James Madison
“God is not a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Muslim. God is the all-loving, all-merciful, all-compassionate creator.”
– Desmond Tutu
“The Big Bang theory does not conflict with the notion of God as creator. On the contrary, it may even support it, for the universe could not have created itself.”
– Stephen Hawking
“God has no religion.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys.”
– Chief Dan George, Tsleil-Waututh Nation
“The Big Bang theory is a creation myth. If you want to say that God created the universe, then you should say that God created the universe with the Big Bang.”
– Michio Kaku
“Whether the universe is a concourse of atoms, or nature is a system, let this first be established: that I am a part of the whole that is governed by nature; next, that I stand in some intimate connection with other kindred parts.”
– Marcus Aurelius
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