Pastoral Resources

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

Then no matter what goes on around you in the physical universe, hang on to what you know.

Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.