Quotes
The hypothesis that the apostles were knaves
is quite absurd. Follow it out to the end and imagine these
twelve men meeting after Jesus's death and conspiring to say that
he had risen from the dead. This means attacking all the powers
that be. The human heart is singularly susceptible to fickleness,
to change, to promises, to bribery. One of them had only to deny
his story under these inducements, or still more because of
possible imprisonment, torture and death, and they would all have
been lost. -- Pascal, Pensees
'This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets,
could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an
intelligent Being.... This Being governs all things . . . as Lord
of all'. 'Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar
system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to
receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen
by chance'. -- Sir Isaac Newton
"God is subtle, but he is not malicious." -- Albert
Einstein [Princeton University Press (1978)].