God’s purpose in creating the universe was to feel happiness when He saw the purpose of goodness fulfilled in the Heavenly Kingdom, which the whole of Creation, including man, could have established.
-Scriptures "Divine Principle I.1.3.1"
God’s purpose in creating the universe was to feel happiness when He saw the purpose of goodness fulfilled in the Heavenly Kingdom, which the whole of Creation, including man, could have established.
It is difficult to discuss the beginning of the Universe without mentioning the concept of God… It is quite possible that God acts in ways that cannot be described by scientific laws. But in that case one would just have to go by personal belief.
I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.
-Voltaire
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-Galileo Galilei
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
The Guru believes in one God. They believe that all the gurus are the same as Nanak
God enters by a private door into every individual.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
-Khalil Gibran
Likewise the spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. And he who searches the hearts of men knows the mind of the spirit, because the spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
And if God had not repelled some men by others, the earth would have been corrupted.