Saint Augustine Quotes

As far as I know, Clifford Pickover is the first mathematician to write a book about areas where math and theology overlap. Are there mathematical proofs of God? Who are the great mathematicians who believed in a deity? Does numerology lead anywhere when applied to sacred literature? Pickover covers these and many other off-trail topics with his usual verve, humor, and clarity. And along the way the reader will learn a great deal of serious mathematics.

Time is not eternal but was created by God at the beginning.

To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.

I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him

If, as many people believe, there is a God, and that God made us in his own image, then of course we are distinct from nature, just as He is.

Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.

Number three is always fortunate.

God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create.

And you poor creatures--who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

On the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the Earth.

God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities.

God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

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

God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God .

If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

There have been men before who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself, as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science.

So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God.

Evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve.