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It is possible to demonstrate God’s existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.