Quotes about Universe

If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

But man as a person, the same man, gains mastery over egocentric self-confinement by disclosing a universe in himself...Personality is a universe, it is filled with universal content.

Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.

Man is a piece of the universe made alive

When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success.

How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?

There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.

Therefore, as the divine wisdom is the cause of the distinction of things for the sake of the perfection of the universe, so it is the cause of inequality. For the universe would not be perfect if only one grade of goodness were found in things.

Now the highest good existing in things is the good of the order of the universe, as the Philosopher clearly teaches in Metaph. xii.

Reply to Objection 3: The universe, the present creation being supposed, cannot be better, on account of the most beautiful order given to things by God; in which the good of the universe consists. For if any one thing were bettered, the proportion of order would be destroyed; as if one string were stretched more than it ought to be, the melody of the harp would be destroyed.

Reply to Objection 5: As was said above, the parts of the universe are ordered to each other, according as one acts on the other, and according as one is the end and exemplar of the other. But, as was said above, this can only happen to evil as joined to some good. Hence evil neither belongs to the perfection of the universe, nor does it come under the order of the same, except accidentally, that is, by reason of some good joined to it.