Pastoral Resources

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.

It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers.

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.

Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.

And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

One aspect of this is the way we have come during recent centuries to appreciate that the world and indeed the very universe in which we live have evolved over immense periods of time.

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.

For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the image we then make of ourselves.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.

It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.'

I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it.

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.