Nicolas Malebranche Quotes

It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.

The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.

I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before.

My life was changed in one breath from God.

If human language, with its logic, is the way God has given us to understand the world, then the Torah must be understood in that same language and with that same logic.

There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.

Now God has never shouted out to me. I've never heard God speak audibly. He doesn't have to.

The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us.

God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking His words and causing the power of them to persist across the years.

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

The Jews did not go into darkness all at once. It was a gradual work, until they could not discern the gift of God in sending his Son.

Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page.

I don't have a problem with the concept that miracles might occasionally occur at moments of great significance, where there is a message being transmitted to us by God Almighty. But as a scientist, I set my standards for miracles very high.

As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.

If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right.

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

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

Part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand.

The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.

All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.

Scrutamini scripturas [Latin for “Let us look at the scriptures.”). These two words have undone the world.

Revealed religion had no weight with me.