David Brewster Quotes

God is Truth. There is no incompatibility between science and religion. Both are seeking the same truth. Science shows that God exists.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

They which divide in Religion, divide in God; they who divide in him, divide beyond Genus Generalissimum, where there is no reconciliation, without atonement -- that is, without uniting in him, who is One, and in his Truth, which is also one.

The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.

I don't think Beethoven expresses religious truth. He expresses a human truth.

I've always loved yoga because you get to connect to a deep religious truth while stretching your legs.

If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to make of the many people who do not have that experience?

Truth is objective because God exists outside ourselves; it is universal because God is above all; it is constant because God is eternal. Absolute truth is absolute because it originates from the original.

There is a principle which is pure, placed in the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names. It is, however, pure and proceeds from God. It is deep and inward, confined to no forms of religion nor excluded from any, where the heart stands in perfect sincerity. In whomsoever this takes root and grows, of what nation soever, they become brethren in the best sense of the expression.

I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings.

The meaning of religious truth is hope.

Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.

A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.

Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles; he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.

Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.

One real thing is closer to God than all the diagrams in the world

Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

The Lord's Prayer reminds us that God longs for His people to communicate with Him, not just in church on Sunday, but wherever we are and whatever our need.

Everything - a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being - is ultimately unknowable. This is because it has unfathomable depth. All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceberg. Underneath the surface appearance, everything is not only connected with everything else, but also with the Source of all life out of which it came. Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself.

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

Grace is the truth that Jesus came to give us.

Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.