“Yet the most pervasive error one encounters in contemporary arguments about belief in God-especially, but not exclusively, on the atheist side-is the habit of conceiving of God simply as some very large object or agency within the universe, or perhaps alongside the universe, a being among other beings, who differs from all other beings in magnitude, power, and duration, but not ontologically, and who is related to the world more or less as a craftsman is related to an artifact.” WorldUniverseBeliefSidesObjectsHabitArgumentErrorsAtheistContemporaryRelatedAgencyEncountersMagnitudeDurationBelief In GodCraftsmanArtifactsConceiving Author:David Bentley Hart
“The fact that men have a same origin and live in the same universe means that they are representatives of a same unity. Deep down, they are also related (or connected) among them; that they consider (or not) themselves as strangers, this just depends on the feeling (or sensation) that dictate their relationships. In their country, two fellow coutrymen whose paths berely cross (or see each only only briefly) with inferrence, would effusively rush themselves up (or throw themselves) into each other arms if they would happen to meet in a desert, among Cannibles.” IfsMenMeanTwoCountryFactsFeelingsHappensUniversePathArmsDependsCrossesFellowsUnityStrangerConnectedDesertRelatedSensationsRepresentativesDeep Down Author:African Spir
“The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.” WaySoulBodyUniverseSubstanceRelated Book:Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic Source: Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic
“scientific thought does not mean thought about scientific subjects with long names. There are no scientific subjects. The subject of science is the human universe; that is to say, everything that is, or has been, or may be related to man.” MenHumansMayMeanLongDoeHas BeensUniverseNamesSubjectsRelated Book:The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays Source: The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays
“The Universe is a unity, an interacting and genetically-related community of beings bound together in an inseparable relationship in space and time... The human is that being in whom the Universe activates, reflects upon, and celebrates itself in conscious self-awareness.” HumansSelfTogetherUniverseCommunitySpaceAwarenessConsciousSelf AwarenessUnityBoundsCelebrateRelatedTime And SpaceInseparableInteractingActivate Author:Thomas Berry