02UndatedThe only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.Dan Brown / quote ↗
03UndatedThese books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all time." Faukman's eyes went wide. "Don't tell me Harry Potter is actually about the Holy Grail.""I was referring to the Bible."Faukman cringed. "I knew that.Dan Brown / quote ↗
04UndatedWe are creators, and yet we naively play the role of "the created." We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us. We kneel like frightened children, begging for help, for forgiveness, for good luck. But once we realize that we are truly created in the Creator's image, we will start to understand that we, too, must be Creators. When we understand this fact, the doors will burst wide open for human potential.Dan Brown / quote ↗
05UndatedTruth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas are true...written deep within us. And when we hear the truth, even if we don't understand it, we feel that truth resonate within us...vibrating with our unconscious wisdom. Perhaps the truth is not learned by us, but rather, the truth is re-called...re-membered...-re-cognized...as that which is already inside us.Dan Brown / quote ↗
06Undated…In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.Dan Brown / quote ↗
08UndatedWhether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faiths… all faiths… are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable. With faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth. Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed. The church consists of a brotherhood of imperfect, simple souls wanting only to be a voice of compassion in a world spinning out of control.Dan Brown / quote ↗
09UndatedEvery faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith―acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory, and exaggeration, from the early Egyptians through modern Sunday school. Metaphors are a way to help our minds process the unprocessible. The problems arise when we begin to believe literally in our own metaphors.Should we wave a flag and tell the Buddhists that we have proof the Buddha did not come from a lotus blossom? Or that Jesus was not born of a literal virgin birth? Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.Dan Brown / quote ↗
11UndatedI am not questioning God's power! It is God who gave us reason and circumspection! It is God we serve by exercising prudence!Dan Brown / quote ↗
12UndatedThere comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand ZobristDan Brown / quote ↗
13UndatedWhen his brain died, all of the memoriesheld in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporatein a flood of chemical reactions.Dan Brown / quote ↗
14UndatedThe man now retrieved a linen cloth and stuffed it deep into Katherine’s mouth. “Death,” hewhispered to her, “should be a quiet thing.Dan Brown / quote ↗
15UndatedIt has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand ZobristDan Brown / quote ↗
16UndatedFaith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.Dan Brown / quote ↗
17UndatedFaith ― acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.Dan Brown / quote ↗
18UndatedScience tells me God must exist.My mind tells me I'll never understand God.My heart tells me I'm not meant to. [Vittoria Vetra]Dan Brown / quote ↗
19UndatedMr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands?Dan Brown / quote ↗
20UndatedSince the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.Dan Brown / quote ↗
21UndatedFor centuries the church has stood by while science picked away at religion bit by bit. Debunking miracles. Training the mind to overcome the heart. Condemning religion as the opiate of the masses. They denounce God as a hallucination - a delusional crutch for those too weak to accept that life is meaningless. I could not stand by while science presumed to harness the power of God himself! Proof, you say? Yes, proof of science's ignorance! What is wrong with the admission that something exists beyond our understanding? The day science substantiates God in a lab is the day people stop needing faith!Dan Brown / quote ↗
22UndatedHe respected the power of faith, the benevolence of churches, the strength religion gave so many people . . . and yet, for him, the one intellectual suspension of disbelief that was imperative if one were truly going to "believe" had always proved too big an obstacle for his academic mind. "I want to believe," he heard himself say.Dan Brown / quote ↗
23UndatedBuddha had said:"Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.Dan Brown / quote ↗
24UndatedScience and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.Dan Brown / quote ↗
