Q: Do you believe in God?
A: I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene...
Q: Do you accept Jesus?
A: Unquestionably! No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.
Q: Do you believe in God?
A: I am not an atheist...The problem involved is too vast for limited minds. We are like a child entering a huge library filled with books of many languages. The child knows someone must have written the books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but does not know what it is...We too see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws.
Q: What do you mean you are religious?
A: The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious...the cradle of art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand in rapt awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp...this is religiousness...in this sense I am a devoutly religious man...
What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the universe.
Time April 16, 2007
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