"Being a scientist helps to support both my life as a Jesuit and my belief in God."

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George Coyne

#Support Quotes #Helping Quotes #Belief Quotes

“Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.”
“If you like not hanging, drown yourself; Take some course for your reputation.”
“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.”
“I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.”
“I took up leprosy work not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good for others was a by-product. But the fact is I did it to overcome fear.”
“This was not judgment day - only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.”
“The Italian landscape has always harmonized the vulgar and the Vitruvian: the contorni around the duomo, the portiere'S laundry across the padrone's portone, Supercortemaggiore against the Romanesque apse. Naked children have never played in our fountains, and I. M. Pei will never be happy on Route 66.”
“You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more complex or difficult than these, that you need to be anxious or troubled about His management of it?”

Source : Hannah Whitall Smith (2009). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life”, p.84, Moody Publishers

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