Athenagoras: Worship the Composer, Not the Instrument

Beautiful without doubt is the world, excelling, as well in its magnitude as in the arrangement of its parts, both those in the oblique circle and those about the north, and also in its spherical form. Yet it is not this, but its Artificer, that we must worship. For when any of your subjects come … Continue reading Athenagoras: Worship the Composer, Not the Instrument

Augustine: Thou, the One, the Good God, hast never ceased to do good

We therefore see those things which Thou madest, because they are; but they are because Thou seest them. And we see without that they are, and within that they are good, but Thou didst see them there, when made, where Thou didst see them to be made. And we were at another time moved to … Continue reading Augustine: Thou, the One, the Good God, hast never ceased to do good

Albert Einstein on God’s existence

We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different tongues...The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend...That, it seems to me, is the attitude of the human mind, even the greatest and most cultured, toward God.

Psalm 139:13-18: Why God Makes the Difference?

“I believe in one God, Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.” Thus begins the Nicene Creed. The creedal framers were convinced that the eternal God spoke all things into existence. This belief reflected hearts and minds deeply influenced by the constellation of biblical texts that testified to … Continue reading Psalm 139:13-18: Why God Makes the Difference?