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Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1) QUOTES

Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1) QUOTES

1 " …In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves. "

― Dan Brown , Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)

2 " God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'. "

― Dan Brown , Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)

3 " Whether 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 , Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)

4 " I 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 , Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)

5 " Faith 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 , Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)

6 " Science 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 , Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)

7 " Mr. 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 , Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)

8 " Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand. "

― Dan Brown , Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)

9 " For 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 , Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)

10 " Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand. "

― Dan Brown , Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)

11 " Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us. "

― Dan Brown , Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)

12 " Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed. "

― Dan Brown , Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)

13 " It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts. "

― Dan Brown , Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)

14 " The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece "

― Dan Brown , Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)

15 " …Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed. "

― Dan Brown , Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)

16 " The most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears. "

― Dan Brown , Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)

17 " When you're a black woman, her mother said, ain't no hiding what you are. Day you try, is the day you die. Stand tall, smile bright, and let 'em wonder what secret's making you laugh. "

― Dan Brown , Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)

18 " Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine—they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its own blunders, at any cost. For everyone’s sake.”
Vittoria was amazed at Kohler’s ability to weigh moral issues with scientific detachment. His intellect seemed to be the product of an icy divorce from his inner spirit. “You think CERN is so critical to the earth’s future that we should be immune from moral responsibility? "

― Dan Brown , Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)

19 " She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to guess where one would land next. The nuns called again, threatening that pneumonia might make an insufferably headstrong child a lot less curious about nature. "

― Dan Brown , Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)

20 " Isn’t antimatter what fuels the U.S.S.
Enterprise? "

― Dan Brown , Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)