„Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?“
— James Frey American screenwriter and media presenter 1969
„The analogy between Shannon and codes in biology isn't something that sprang from my belief in God... except maybe on some deeper or more transcendent level.“
— George Gilder, Interview with the Boston Globe (27 July 2005)
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„In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.“
— Fernando Pessoa Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher 1888 - 1935
Original: Em qualquer espírito, que não seja disforme, existe a crença em Deus. Em qualquer espírito, que não seja disforme, não existe crença em um Deus definido.
Ibid., p. 375
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„God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.“
— Joseph Campbell American mythologist, writer and lecturer 1904 - 1987
„Maybe the most sacred function of memory is just that: to render the distinction between past, present, and future ultimately meaningless; to enable us at some level of our being to inhabit that same eternity which it is said that God himself inhabits.“
— Frederick Buechner Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian 1926
„Keep your honor code between you and God, you don’t break that, no matter who’s not looking. God is.“
— Caroline Myss author from the United States 1952
As quoted in "Caroline Myss' Journey" by Terry Loncaric, at Conscious Choice (September 2003) http://www.consciouschoice.com/2003/cc1609/carolinemyss1609.html
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„God is the Immanent Cause of all things, never truly transcendent from them“
— Baruch Spinoza Dutch philosopher 1632 - 1677
Part I, Prop. XVIII
„Transcendence is the way God is immanent. God is present in every created reality, without being identified with it. This is the meaning of God’s transcendence.“
— Kurien Kunnumpuram Indian theologian 1931
Kunnumpuram, Kurien, 2011 “Theological Exploration,” Jnanadeepa: Pune Journal of Religious Studies 14/2 (July-Dec 2011)
„What we know of physical and biological science makes existence of God less probable than the existence of Santa Claus. And the parts of physics that rule out God are not themselves open to much doubt. There is no chance that they will be revised by anything yet to be discovered. To be sure, there will be revolutionary developments in science. Superstring theory may give way to quantum-loop gravity; exceptions to the genetic code may be discovered; some unique function of consciousness may be identified. But there are some things that won't happen. Purposes and designs will never have a role in physics and biology. Perpetual motion machines and other violations of the laws of thermodynamics won't arise, not even if there turns out to be such a thing as cold fusion.“
— Alexander Rosenberg American philosopher 1946
„Just my vengeance complete,
The man sprang to his feet,
Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed!
So, I was afraid!“
— Robert Browning English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era 1812 - 1889
Instans Tyrannus, vii.
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„Maybe the growth of "God" signifies the existence of God. That is: if history naturally pushes people toward moral improvement, toward moral growth, and their God, as they conceive their God, grows accordingly, becoming morally richer, then maybe this growth is evidence of some higher purpose, and maybe — conceivably — the source of that purpose is worthy of the name divinity.“
— Robert Wright American journalist, born 1957 1957
The Evolution of God. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009, p. 286.
„I call myself a non-theist as opposed to an atheist because as I see an atheist as having a belief about God, i.e. that there isn't one.“
— Ursula Goodenough American biologist 1943
Context: Well, God answers of course come in every flavor imaginable these days so God can be process-God can be mind-God … so there are all of these ways that God is now configured as well as the ones that come to us from traditional religions where God has much more power — then there's the whole personal God part which I do talk about in there at some point. So I don't think that even that there is a God framework out there at this point that I am either accepting or rejecting. My response is that I call myself a non-theist as opposed to an atheist because as I see an atheist as having a belief about God, i. e. that there isn't one. And my I've never been actually very interested in the question I guess is one way to put it. I see it as a question That can be summarized in the aphorism "Why is there anything at all rather than nothing." And science doesn't have any answer to That so what I articulated in the book and continued to do is what I call a covenant with mystery where mystery is itself a … noun but I am using it as literally in absence of category. It's not like I have a mystery then I put attributions onto it it just … I don't know the answers.
„Now there was that look of waiting, and submission—not the frenzy of the stadium, but the quiet sleep-trance of belief. Something stirred in me at it, as I realized I had them in my palm. I stood very still in my white and black, holding the copper things in my hands, and then I began to walk between them toward the god. And I laughed at the god as I went toward him. You—what are you? And he had no answer for me, for here it was the priest who was the power, not the god, poor empty stone.“
— Tanith Lee British writer 1947 - 2015
Book Two, Part I “Across the Ring”, Chapter 3 (p. 155)
