Gerald Schroeder Quotes

#1. The claim in Psalms that "the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament proclaims His works" (Psalms 19:2) is not a mere metaphor. The study of nature, even with all its intellectual rigor, is filled with spiritual wonder.

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#2. It simply lies beyond the capacity of the human mind. And if the Bible is correct, then what created our universe, God, was and is metaphysical.

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#3. We can say the word "metaphysical," meaning that which exists outside of the physical, but we cannot comprehend the metaphysical.

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#4. Yet knowing the physics steals none of the wonder as the sky turns from blue to crimson, then deep purple, and finally embraces the black of night as Earth's rotation

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#5. The real question is why is there "being"? The existence of existence is amazing, awesome.

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#6. Wisdom, information, an idea, is the link between the metaphysical Creator and the physical creation. It is the hidden face of God.

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#7. Light beams became alive, and became not only alive, but self-aware, and acquired the ability to wonder. The wonder is not whether this genesis took six days or fourteen billion years or even eternity.

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#8. Spirituality not rooted in the reality of life's material needs rarely effects a meaningful gain.

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#9. Psalms 90:4: A thousand years in your sight are like a day that passes.

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#10. From the tiniest grain of sand to the brain of an Einstein, all existence, animate and inanimate, is the product of the same ninety-two elements that are themselves the harvest of the energy of the creation. At every turn an underlying commonality, a unity, emerges from within the diversity.

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#11. Peter 3:8: Unto the Lord, a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day.

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#12. Knowing the plumbing of the universe, intricate and awe-inspiring though that plumbing might be, is a far cry from discovering its purpose.

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