Pastoral Resources

It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.

Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.

But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

It's just too egotistical to think that we are the only lifeform in the universe.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

As the universe accepted our show, more people began to accept me.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.