Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent.

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

As you heat the planet up, it’s just like boiling a pot.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that – it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.

I’m an atheist.

Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can’t escape to infinity.

My musical taste and image is going to change naturally. It’s not forced; I do what comes natural to me. Sometimes, I like to be dark… other times, I like to be really light and ladylike.

The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

God’s first creature, which was light.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.