Bernie Siegel Quotes

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it

Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished animal and an unfinished man. It is this incurable unfinishedness which sets man apart from other living things. For, in the attempt to finish himself, man becomes a creator. Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

For me, I've always believed that there was a God. I've always believed that God created the heavens and earth - so, for me it's not a huge leap from there to intelligent design.

I am one who believes that the world goes from the slime to the sublime. And you can take Darwin and all your philosophers and all your ontologists, and that's the direction.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

What evolution tells us is that we are part of a grand, dynamic, and ever-changing fabric of life that covers our planet. Even to a person of faith, in fact especially to a person of faith, an understanding of the evolutionary process should only deepen their appreciation of the scope and wisdom of the creator's work.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

I believe that God made this wonderful universe and all that exists.

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

It is mind-boggling to me that the Almighty power created everything I see; the Bible says that God created the entire universe just so he could create this galaxy just so he could create Earth so he could create human beings so he could create a family.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Darwinistic evolution would be a most peculiar creative method for God to choose, given the Darwinistic insistence that biological evolution was undirected. That requirement means that God neither programmed evolution in advance nor stepped in from time to time to pull it in the right direction. How then did God ensure that humans would come into existence so that salvation history would have a chance to occur?