Matthew Hayden Quotes

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience.

in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.

How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?

The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience. This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious is identical with God or is set up in his place. It is simply the medium from which religious experience seems to flow. As to what the further cause of such experience might be, the answer to this lies beyond the range of human knowledge.

Tony's [Blair] convinced I'm going to find God. I do have spiritual moments, but I don't think it's God.

I enjoy playing Test cricket, especially against India in India.

I try to be sensitive to the power of language, to the power of language that God uses to reveal something about what Christ is doing in our time. That is why I'm always excited about preaching, because there is always something new.

During the 2011 World Cup, I was sitting at the Wankhede Stadium when India won.

All things of beauty can speak to us of God, and I'm very happy to listen to and be inspired by people of every religious background.

The Bible is the book I read. It's got answers for everything.

A vague religion—all about feeling God in nature, and so on—is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work; like watching the waves from the beach. But you will not get to Newfoundland by studying the Atlantic, and you will not get eternal life by simply feeling the presence of God in Flowers or music.

Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.

We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.

A man without vision is a man without God.

Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.

Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.

I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.

Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

God has created several doors which open onto truth. He opens them to all those who knock on them with the hand of faith.

Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.

If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.