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

C.S. Lewis: If God comes to work miracles, He comes ‘like a thief in the night.’

If the laws of Nature are necessary truths, no miracle can break them: but then no miracle needs to break them. It is with them as with the laws of arithmetic. If I put six pennies into a drawer on Monday and six more on Tuesday, the laws decree that—other things being equal—I shall find … Continue reading C.S. Lewis: If God comes to work miracles, He comes ‘like a thief in the night.’

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.