Quotations

"There is a grandeur in this view of life." ~ Charles Darwin

 "Our human destiny is integral with the destiny of the earth." ~ Thomas Berry

"The order of the universe is toward compassion." ~ Pete Terpenning

"There are two stages in the criticism of myths. . . .  The first treats them angrily as superstitions; the second treats them smilingly as poetry. . . .  Religion is human experience interpreted by human imagination. . . .  The idea that religion contains a literal, not a symbolic representation of the truth and life, is simply an impossible idea." ~ George Santayana: Reason in Science

".. if you have found something shared by most or even all humans, you have probably found something of profound significance." ~Ken Wilber

The purpose of religion is to “orient people toward the cosmos in a way that they feel they belong.” ~ Rabbi Zalman Schacher-Shalomi

“Someday after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness . . . the energies fo love. Then for the second times in history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”

The Great Story of evolution gives "a message of realistic hope and inspiration, grounded in reason, inspired by faith." ~ Rev. Michael Dowd

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.  This is the first and greatest commandment.  And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.  All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."  (Matthew 22:35-40)

"Truth has to appear only once in a single mind, for it to be impossible ever to prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze." ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in Heart of Matter.

"Science and religion look at the same reality through different windows." ~ Freemon Dyson

"My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer." ~ Richard Dawkins

Science guides our knowing, religion guides our loving. Humans need both.

"The evolutionary epic is probably the best myth we will ever have. ~ Edward O. Wilson, biologist"

"The stories of evolution have the power to unite all peoples. "~ Lynn Margulis and Dorian Sagan"

"The more we know about nature, the more we know about God." ~ Thomas Keating

"The problem of survival is not fundamentally technological. It is spiritual and moral. It is evolutionary." ~ David Grinspoon

"Someday after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness . . . the energies of love. Then for the second times in history of the world, man will have discovered fire." ~ Pierre Teillard de Chardin

"Our individual self finds its most complete realization within our family self, our community self, our species self, our earthly self, and eventually our universe self." ~ Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry

"All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story." ~ Brian Swimme

"The most meaningful activity in which a human being can be engaged is one that is directly related to human evolution." ~ Jonas Salk

"The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrisically ennobling as any religious epic."~ Edward O. Wilson

"I see a science that tells us there is indeed a design to life. And the name of that design is evolution." ~ Kenneth Miller, author of Finding Darwin's God

"The evolutionary epic is probably the best myth we will ever have". ~ Edward O. Wilson, biologist

To YOU I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition. ~ Woody Allen

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. ~ Alfred North Whitehead

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ~ William James

What we are looking for is what is looking. ~ St. Francis of Assisi

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystical. It is the source of all true art and science. ~ Albert Einstein

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. ~Oscar Wilde

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being. ~ Carl Jung