Isaac Newton Quotes

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

God does arithmetic.

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.

For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.

To me, it's the folly of man to make God human.

A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe.

The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.

To know God's name is to know God.

God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.

God is best known in not knowing him.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.

You may know God, but not comprehend Him.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.

What I love about believing in a living God is that I believe God is constantly revealing God's self to us over time, and with each succeeding generation, we come a little closer to understanding the mind of God.

Prophecy is an intercept from the mind of an all-knowing and all-seeing and all-powerful God.

The word for knowledge appears in the Koran more often than any other except God.

If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, why should we have doubts concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses?