“Both religion and science need for their activities the belief in God,
and moreover God stands for the former in the beginning, and for the
latter at the end of the whole thinking. For the former, God represents
the basis, for the latter — the crown of any reasoning concerning the
world view.” “Religion represents a bond of man to God. It consists in
reverent awe before a supernatural Might, to which human life is
subordinated and which has in its power our welfare and misery. To
remain in permanent contact with this Might and keep it all the time
inclined to oneself, is the unending effort and highest goal of the
believing man. Because only in such a way can one feel himself safe
before expected and unexpected dangers, which threaten one in his life,
and can take part in the highest happiness — inner psychical
peace — which can be attained only by means of strong bond to God and
unconditional trust to His omnipotence and willingness to help.”
“That God existed before there were human beings on Earth, that He
holds the entire world, believers and nonbelievers, in His omnipotent
hand for eternity, and that He will remain enthroned on a level
inaccessible to human comprehension long after the Earth and everything
that is on it has gone to ruins; those who profess this faith and who,
inspired by it, in veneration and complete confidence, feel secure from
the dangers of life under protection of the Almighty, only those may
number themselves among the truly religious.”
“Yet in the whole of the universe there is no force that is either
intelligent or eternal, and we must therefore assume that behind this
force there is a conscious, intelligent Mind or Spirit. This is the
very origin of all matter.” (Additional quotes are in our Jan/Feb 2008
issue.)
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