"If I have a fundamental belief that the universe is created by God, then I also come to the belief that that universe reflects God, it gives me some knowledge of Him. Obviously, therefore, the more I know of the universe is, the more enriched my limited knowledge of God is."

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George Coyne

#Giving Quotes #Fundamentals Quotes #Knowledge Of God Quotes

“I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.”
“God bless America, land that I love.”
“The nightmare of the Cold War was nuclear weapons in the hands of an irrational person. I don't want to live through that nightmare.”
“None of us wants to admit that we hate someone... When we deny our hate we detour around the crisis of forgiveness. We suppress our spite, make adjustments, and make believe we are too good to be hateful. But the truth is that we do not dare to risk admitting the hate we feel because we do not dare to risk forgiving the person we hate.”
“Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.”
“I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together”
“Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic traincar constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." ... I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life...”

Source : Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.217, A&C Black
“We crave a world of either/or, but the Dream says, Both/and. We build a wall between our social persona and our inner selves; the Dream bids us, Demolish it. We wish to believe we're separate from one another, but the Dream insists, We are in this together. We are pleased to believe Time is a one-way river from past to present to future, yet the Dream reveals, All three times flow into one. We wish to seek pure virtue and avoid all stain, but the Dream avers, The dark and the light are braided and bound.”

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