Everybody in Argentina can remember 'the hand of God' in the England match in the 1986 World Cup. Now, in my country, the 'hand of God' has brought us an Argentinian pope.
God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.
In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.
For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.
With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.
We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.
If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They should be a comfort and a protection.
If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war. [ .]
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
We are seeing the cells of plants and animals more and more clearly as chemical factories, where the various products are manufactured in separate workshops.
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.
Most urgent is the good First Job Program, that Lula plans to implement, which hasn't got off the ground.
Harry Block: Between air conditioning and the Pope, I chose air conditioning.
Earl McGraw: [about Doc Block] Never did like that son of a bitch. About as useless as a pecker on a pope.
The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.
