Burton Richter Quotes

I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

The will of the world is never the will of God.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

What is the origin of God?

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress, more fully revealing himself as humans gain the capacity to better understand.

The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.

God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

If everything is God's will, then so is the invention of the vaccine, just like the seatbelt.

Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem.

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

No God without a world, and no world without God.

'God' is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and 'Deity' is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

Clearly, unless the Lord chooses to explain Himself to us, which often He does not, His motivation and purposes are beyond the reach of mortal man. What this means in practical terms is that many of our questions - especially those that begin with the word 'why' - will have to remain unanswered for the time being.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God.

The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They declared that He had created the universe.

This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.