Quotes About God

Men, finding no answers to the sunnan [ten thousand religious questions from the Shari-ah] now apply their own reasoning. All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

The Universe is God's. It is one thing, a wholeness against which all separations may be identified. Transient life, even that self-aware and reasoning life which we call sentient, holds only fragile trusteeship on any portion of the wholeness.

There's no mighty seat of reason which dwells within the brain. Creation is discovery. God discovered us in the Void because we moved against a backgroundwhich He already knew. The wall was blank. Then there was movement.

Bene Gesserit view that humans were life designed by evolution to create order. And how does that help us against these disorderly women who hunt us? What branch of evolution are they? Is evolution just another name for God?

For every veteran who returns with a new sense of destiny ('I survived; that must be God's purpose') more come home with barely submerged bitterness, ready to take 'the easy way' because they saw so much of it in the stresses of war.

We Fremen have a saying: 'God created Arrakis to train the faithful.' One cannot go against the word of God.

Forgive us, Lord," Nunepi whispered. "Forgive you?" Leto's voice was full of sweet reason. "Of course I forgive you. That is your God's function. Your crime is forgiven. However, your stupidity requires a response.

Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe.

Only that I've never met a psychoanalyst who didn't – at least subconsciously – offer his system as a substitute for religion. Present company included. We set ourselves up as little gods – all-knowing, all-healing. People resent that and rightly. We have polite labels for our failures. We agree among ourselves that anything bearing one of those labels is, of course, incurable.' Dr

We Fremen have a saying: 'God created Arrakis to train the faithful.' One cannot go against the word of God.

I give you the desert chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity. The Universe is God's. It is one thing, a wholeness against which all separations may be identified.

God created Arrakis to train the faithful. —FROM "THE WISDOM OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

los demagogos son fáciles de identificar. Hacen un montón de gestos y hablan con ritmos de púlpito utilizando palabras que resuenan a fervor religiosos y a sinceridad temerosa de Dios.

It is fate, Nayla thought. It is God's will. They were the same thing. A

To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.

Creation is discovery. God discovered us in the Void because we moved against a background which He already knew.

Am I good or evil? Orne asked himself. He forced his attention onto the question, but it was like wading upstream in a swift river. His thoughts twisted and turned, showed a tendency to scatter. He said: "I'm ... if I'm one with all the universe, then I am God. I am creation. I am the miracle. How can that be good or evil?

Universul e al lui Dumnezeu. El este un singur lucru, un tot de la care pornind se pot identifica toate separaÈ›iile. ViaÈ›a trec?toare, inclusiv acea via?? înzestrat? cu raÈ›iune È™i conÈ™tiin?? pe care noi o numim inteligen??, nu deÈ›ine decât un mandat fragil asupra unei p?rÈ›i oarecare din tot.

I assure you that the ability to view our futures can become a bore. Even to be thought of as a god, as I certainly was, can become ultimately boring. It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will. —INSCRIPTION ON THE STOREHOUSE AT DAR-ES-BALAT

Lord, are you telling me that you are not really a god? I am telling you that I do not play hide-and-seek with death.

What's a practical god?" Dasein asked. "A practical god? That'a a god who agrees with his worshipers.

I can say God, but that is not my God. That is only a noise and no more potent than any other noise.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.