Sreenivasan Quotes

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

This sounds cheesy but when I would get in discussions with people about religion or spirituality, a lot of people would say, "I believe God is nature, there's God in that tree" - and I would think, What the hell are they on about? But it was about four or five years ago in Hawaii where that all made sense to me and I got it all, and I felt God was in the trees and in the grass and the flowers, and I completely understood.

God is not a dead equation!

If you're going to believe in a God, then you also have to equally believe that there's a flip side to this.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

We now use the word 'nature' very much as our fathers used the word 'God.'

I say God is the ultimate.

Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things

Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

The burden of proof is on those who don't believe that "Genesis" was right, and there was a creation, and that Creator is still involved.

Belief in God is so deranged that it makes absolutely no sense, but it holds people together somehow.

Religion is among the most beautiful and most natural of all things - that religion which 'sees God in clouds and hears Him in the wind,' which endows every object of sense with a living soul, which finds in the system of nature whatever is holy, mysterious and venerable, and inspires the bosom with sentiments of awe and veneration.

Religion is like a personal computer. You let people in if you want to... We're all gods.

If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.

Nature is my church. The wind in the trees and the bugs and the frogs. All those things are comfort to me.

If, as many people believe, there is a God, and that God made us in his own image, then of course we are distinct from nature, just as He is.

Everybody has a different definition of God. When people say, 'Do you believe?' I think they mean the Christian God. There are a lot of gods, so I think they cancel each other out.

Naturalism is a counterpart to theism. Theism says there's the physical world and God. Naturalism says there's only the natural world. There are no spirits, no deities, or anything else.

The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snowboarding, and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away.

Faith is not a product of reflection, nor is it even an attempt to penetrate the depths of my own being.

As human beings, we anthropomorphize way too much. God's not a person. God, for me, is a power that lies outside the definition of time and space.

I believe in a God of some kind, in some sort of higher being. Personally I find it very comforting.