Paula Cole Quotes

Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done.

It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religious. . . . I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life.

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

I believe in mystery and, frankly, I sometimes face this mystery with great fear. In other words, I think that there are many things in the universe that we cannot perceive or penetrate, and that also we experience some of the most beautiful things in life only in a very primitive form. Only in relation to these mysteries do I consider myself to be a religious man.

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.

The good Lord made this world and everything that's in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.

I’ve never intended to make religious records or records that preach some kind of point of view... If you’re involved with imagination and the creative process, it’s not such a difficult thing to believe in a god. But I’m not involved in any religions.

True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.

I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

Its a consequence of the experience of science. As you learn more and more about the universe, you find you can understand more and more without any reference to supernatural intervention, so you lose interest in that possibility. Most scientists I know dont care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists. And that, I think, is one of the great things about science-that it has made it possible for people not to be religious.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.

You get religion as your hair turns grey.

The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.

I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now. It's an old cliche, I know, but it's mine. I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural. So far, at least. Not that I wouldn't like to. I mean, I want to believe. I do pray. I pray to something ... up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess ... Do unto others: How much deeper into religion do we really need to go?

Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.

What does God mean to me? I guess I was made the way I am for some reason, and I've been able to find the talent I have, and I've been able to use it, so I'm grateful for that. I believe in God; [but] I'm not saying I'm highly religious.

The downtrodden are more religious than the satisfied.

Science brings men nearer to God.

The real truth, I thought, in terms of what faith is and what Christianity is.

Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky.

In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is important whether or not we believed in one, the same way that historical events are important whether or not you personally lived through them.

Even if you're not a Catholic, even if you're not a Christian, in fact even if you have no religious faith at all, what people could see in Pope John Paul was a man of true and profound spiritual faith.

Men come, men go, all things remain in God.

I pray a simple prayer every morning. It's an ecumenical prayer. Whether you're Catholic or Jewish or Muslim or Hindu, I think it speaks to the heart of every faith. It goes “Lord please break the laws of the universe for my convenience. Amen.”