Quotes about Cosmos

Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero.

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

Four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth.

He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.

Ho! You ask after my faith. Well, now—I believe that something cannot emerge from nothing without divine intervention.

But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and snow, empty themselves, and fill again. The moon is born, and dies, and is reborn. Around millions of clocks swing hour hands, and minute hands, and second hands. Around goes the continual circle of the notes of the scale. Around goes the circle of night and day, the circle of weeks forever revolving, and of months, and of years.

Stories, no matter how simple, can be vehicles of truth; can be, in fact, icons. It's no coincidence that Jesus taught almost entirely by telling stories, simple stories dealing with the stuff of life familiar to the Jews of his day. Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos we see despite all the chaos.