Michael Pollan Quotes

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.

In Japanese culture, there is a belief that God is everywhere - in mountains, trees, rocks, even in our sympathy for robots or Hello Kitty toys.

The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

It is doubtful that the dissection of living animals and plants could be done by those who believe them to be holy. A pantheist would not view trees as so many board feet in the manner a Christian would. A pantheist would be less likely to measure the number of acre feet coming over a waterfall than his Christian descendent, centuries later who had become a scientist. That which is sacred would be handled with a certain reverence.

By 'God' I mean godliness; the whole existence is full of godliness. And when you will come to know, you will not see a god standing before you, you will see the trees as divine, the rocks as divine, the people as divine, the animals as divine. God is spread all over the place, from the pebble to the star, from the blade of grass to the sun - it is all divine.

There is no better evangelist in the world than the Holy Spirit.

How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.

I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene. Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful." He further added: "No man can read the gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life...Theseus and other heroes of his type lack the authentic vitality of Jesus.

My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

All things are full of gods.

Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised?

Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.

God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.

The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek the Gods of heaven? Whatever thou dost behold and whatever thou dost touch, that is Jupiter.

Faith is not a distant view, but a warm embrace of Christ.

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.

Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.

Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done."

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

God is either everything, or He is nothing.

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

Christianity is called the religion of pity.

Ours is not a joy born of having many possessions, but of having encountered a person: Jesus in our midst.

If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.