Who do you say He is?

Thursday, 18 December 2008

Genius!

Some quotes from Einstein you might like, he is often quoted as being an atheist, I'll let you make up your own mind...

“In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views”
“We know nothing about [God, and the world] at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. Possible we shall know a little more than we know now. But the real nature of things, that we shall never know, never.”
“I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of the pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions so how can it conceive of a God before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one.”
When asked about Christianity he said “As a child I received instruction in both the Bible and the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene.”
When asked about the historical existence of Jesus he said “Unquestionably! No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.”
About the Creator’s existence he said “I’m not an atheist. I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn’t know what it is. That, seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvellously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws.”
“What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.”
He wrote in a letter “The fanatical atheists, are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who – in their grudge against traditional religion as ‘the opium of the masses’ – cannot hear the music of the spheres.”
In other words, because of their hatred of traditional religion, they cannot see the genius of God’s handiwork in creation.

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