Freeman Dyson Quotes

I believe that God has a plan and purpose not only for the human race, but for my individual life.

Everything is a part of what God's up to in your life, so I think our job is to embrace it. Everything. Embrace it all and consider it God's will for this moment.

Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning.

It may seem like we have the ultimate plan for our lives, but it's not in the same galaxy of what God's plans are for His people.

I believe that God has a specific plan and reason He created each one of us.

I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

God has a plan for you - I can promise you that. Your life is sacred. There is and always has been a path for your soul, and if you follow that path, it will lead you to the inner utopia that your soul longs to experience in this lifetime.

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

One thing about God's will, you can never see God's will before it happens. You can only see at the end of it.

I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.

The religion I know most about, which is the Christian one, would simply say that it's not really for one man or woman to know fully and to understand the nature of our brief human existence.

I think often that God is guiding me.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully that I played a role in.

Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn't, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

I'm religious. I think this is something God had planned for me.

I searched for answers to life's meaning and, though I was raised a Presbyterian, I converted to Judaism around 1983.