Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

I believe God did intend, in giving us intelligence, to give us the opportunity to investigate and appreciate the wonders of His creation. He is not threatened by our scientific adventures.

Studying physics, mathematics, and chemistry is worshipping God.

science never threatens God - it opens up more possibilities.

I'm a God-fearing man.

My faith is what defines me as a person, that is who I am.

I'm becoming more of a religious person actually as I get older, which I think is not an unusual phenomenon.

Deep down in my heart and what I've seen and what I've been around, there is nothing better than Islam.

I like people of faith, and I believe the more people who have spirituality, the better the world will be. It's about peace and tolerance.

Religion is not knowledge. Religion is love. The word 'religion' comes from a root which means binding together - falling into love, becoming one.

Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.

I believe my religion is the truth, but I am not the truth and the truth doesn't belong to me I'm trying to belong to the truth.

God! Thou art love! I build my faith on that.

Physics filled me with awe, put me in touch with a sense of original causes. Physics brought me closer to God. That feeling stayed with me throughout my years in science. Whenever one of my students came to me with a scientific project, I asked only one question, 'Will it bring you nearer to God?'

Prayer is happy company with God.

Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

Faith is the act of trust by which one being, a sinner, commits himself to another being, a Saviour.

The believing man does not claim to understand. He falls to his knees and whispers, "God." The man of earth kneels also, but not to worship. He kneels to examine, to search, to find the cause and the how of things.

My aim each day is to adore God more than anything else.

Christianity is not a mere religion but an experimentally testable science.

Be to the world a sign that while we as Christians do not have all the answers, we do know and care about the questions.

Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.

A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.

It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God.