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“Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude toward the Infinite Being must also in its expression have a variety of individuality ceaseless and unendi.”

Ideas Self Religion Attitude Creation Expression Infinite Mere Individuality Endless Variety Poetry Is Self Expression

Book:Tagore

Source: Tagore

“Science can reconstruct Tyrannosaurus Rex from a fossilized bone and a fancied footprint, but it can't reconstruct God from the whole of creation.”

Whole Religion Creation Bones Footprint Tyrannosaurus Rex

Author:Robert Breault

“As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.”

Should Believe Reason Done Stories Beautiful Religion Modern Creation Theory Evolution Accounts Significant Torture Conformity Biblical Genesis Symbolism Theory Of Evolution

Author:Will Durant

“And what marvelous things there are for which to be grateful in God's great Creation!”

Christian Religion Creation Grateful Be Grateful Marvelous Marvelous Things

Book:Words I Have Lived

Source: Words I Have Lived

“Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.”

Way God Truth Religion Peace Creation Objects Practicals Hypocrisy Nonsense Serving Preaching Serving God Agnostic Doing Good

Book:Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

“Creation out of absolute nothing is a metaphysical quagmire for theists anyway, since nothing must at least have the potentiality for becoming something. Since theists are stuck with potentiality, it might as well be something like a quantum vacuum.”

Wells Might Religion Creation Becoming Absolutes Stuck Quantum Metaphysical Vacuums Theist Quagmire Becoming Something

Author:Taner Edis

“A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.”

Form Religion Religious Creation Essentials Sanity Continuity Religious Experience

Author:Rene Dubos

“Religion is the answer to that cry of Reason which nothing can silence, that aspiration of the soul which no created thing can meet, that want of the heart which all creation cannot supply.”

Want Heart Soul Reason Religion Answers Silence Cry Creation Aspiration

Book:Aspirations of nature

Source: Aspirations of nature

“The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.”

Humans Heart Real Problem Religion Economic Creation Behavior Economics Relation Seats Arena Human Relations Real Problems Economic Problems Economy And Economics

Book:The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes

Source: The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes

“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.”

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein