Quotes About Cosmos

As G. K. Chesterton once wrote, Your religion is not the church you belong to, but the cosmos you live inside of. Once we know that the entire physical world around us, all of creation, is both the hiding place and the revelation place for God, this world becomes home, safe, enchanted, offering grace to any who look deeply. I call that kind of deep and calm seeing "contemplation.

What was God up to in those first moments of creation? Was God totally invisible before the universe began? Or is there even such a thing as "before"? Why did God create at all? What was God's purpose in creating? Is the universe itself eternal? Or is the universe a creation in time as we know it—like Jesus himself?

Is there any evidence for why God created the heavens and the earth? What was God up to? Was there any divine intention or goal? Or do we even need a creator "God" to explain the universe?

There is only Christ. He is everything and he is in everything" (Colossians 3:11). If I were to write that today, people would call me a pantheist (the universe is God), whereas I am really a panentheist (God lies within all things, but also transcends them), exactly like both Jesus and Paul.

Everything visible, without exception, is the outpouring of God. What else could it really be? "Christ" is a word for the Primordial Template ("Logos") through whom "all things came into being, and not one thing had its being except through him" (John 1:3).

S. Highway 91 to a small cocktail lounge called Cosmos, just past the Algiers and on the opposite side of the Strip.

And if this disenchanted vision were elevated to the status of being the only legitimate vision of the nature of the cosmos upheld by an entire civilization, what an incalculable loss, an impoverishment, a tragic deformation, a grief, would ultimately be suffered by both knower and known.

La teoria redime i fenomeni; è una congettura fortunata.

Tell the sun and stars hello for me.

Bob says hello, he told the stars.

Of course, even without my help, other forces would keep the cosmos chugging along. Many different belief systems powered the revolution of the planets and stars. Wolves would still chase Sol across the sky. Ra would continue his daily journey in his sun barque. Tonatiuh would keep running on his surplus blood from human sacrifices back in the Aztec days. And that other thing—science— would still generate gravity and quantum physics or whatever.

As a magician, you must think about chaos and order. Those are the two forces that control the universe.

Some legends say that Hera's breast milk sprayed across the sky and created the Milky Way. I don't know. That seems like a whole lot of solar systems from just one squirt

You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together.

You are the ever-expanding universe to me

I have been loved said Edward to the stars.

This morning I was ten years old. Tonight I am older than the stars.

God has an inordinate fondness for stars and also for beetles. The small and the very far away.

The faintest imaginable starlight penetrated the clouds.

continuously horrific hell permeated by a constantly perfect heaven.

Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power.

You are not your body. You are actually an extension of the power that created the whole universe.

Just as a wave is a movement of the whole ocean, you are the energy of the cosmos. Don't underestimate your power.

Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.