{"quotes":[{"text":"We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a given instant, as well as the momentary positions of all things in the universe, would be able to comprehend in one single formula the motions of the largest bodies as well as the lightest atoms in the world, provided that its intellect were sufficiently powerful to subject all data to analysis; to it nothing would be uncertain, the future as well as the past would be present to its eyes. The perfection that the human mind has been able to give to astronomy affords but a feeble outline of such an intelligence.","author":"Pierre-Simon Laplace","tags":["analysis","astronomy","certainty","comprehension","data","determinism","eyes","formula","free-will","human-mind","intelligence","lack-of-free-will","mind","motion","naturalism","nature","omniscience","past","perfection","physics","present","science","space","time","universe"],"id":9799,"author_id":"Pierre-Simon+Laplace"},{"text":"It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved on this earth, where he first appeared as a weakly member of the animal kingdom, and on which each individual of his species must ever again appear as a helpless infant... Is a direct fulfilment of all, or of most, of the dearest wishes in his fairy-tales. All these possessions he has acquired through culture. Long ago he formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods. One may say, therefore, that these gods were the ideals of his culture. Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself. But only, it is true, in the way that ideals are usually realized in the general experience of humanity. Not completely; in some respects not at all, in others only by halves. Man has become a god by means of artificial limbs, so to speak, quite magnificent when equipped with all his accessory organs; but they do not grow on him and they still give him trouble at times... Future ages will produce further great advances in this realm of culture, probably inconceivable now, and will increase man's likeness to a god still more.","author":"Sigmund Freud","tags":["culture","desire","fairy-tale","forbidden","fulfillment","future","gods","humanity","mankind","omnipotence","omniscience","prediction","science","wish"],"id":22469,"author_id":"Sigmund+Freud"},{"text":"To the infinite, all finites are equal.","author":"Mark Batterson","tags":["glory-of-god","miracles","omnipotence","omniscience","prayer"],"id":24996,"author_id":"Mark+Batterson"},{"text":"The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["bigger-picture","cookie","cute","faithfulness","figurative","foreknowledge","funny","god","hard-work","humility","humor","impatience","knowledge","literal","metaphor","misunderstanding","obedience","omniscience","patience","prayer","praying","prudence","time","timing","understanding","waiting","work"],"id":31255,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"What's simple is that everything good comes from God, and everything bad comes from man. Where it gets complicated is that everything seemingly good but ultimately bad comes from man, and everything seemingly bad but ultimately good comes from God.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["apologetics","bad","blindness","blindness-of-man","complexity","complication","depravity","desire","discernment","emotion","evil","fallen","glory","god","good","happiness","heart","holiness","ignorance","joy","judgment","love","lust","man","meaning","misunderstood","morality","omnipotence","omnipresence","omniscience","pain","passion","perfection","purpose","reason","scam","simplicity","sin","sovereignty","stupidity","stupidity-of-man","suffering","ultimate","understanding"],"id":38681,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"You speak rather poorly of God when praising Him, or when wanting to praise Him, only during that which you perceive to be your highest of moments. That is many a reason behind unbelief altogether: the failed attempt to control God, to lower His standards to one's own level of understanding in doubt of His foresight and omniscience, His goodness and power. He wants to know if you are faithful enough to praise Him even when, to you, all seems lost.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["adversity","agnosticism","apologetics","atheism","belief","character","faith","foresight","god","goodness","grateful","hope","hopelessness","lack-of-faith","life","omniscience","pain","power","praise","suffering","thankful","theism","unbelief","worship"],"id":77403,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"When God asks a question, it is always rhetorical.","author":"Ron Brackin","tags":["god","knowledge","omniscience"],"id":94763,"author_id":"Ron+Brackin"},{"text":"Dost thou want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing?","author":"Charles Haddon Spurgeon","tags":["counseling","discipleship","faith","intimacy-with-god","omniscience"],"id":126960,"author_id":"Charles+Haddon+Spurgeon"},{"text":"I pity the man who praises God only when things go his way.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["agnosticism","apologetics","atheism","belief","compassion","ego","favor","god","gratitude","humility","know-it-all","misunderstanding","narcissism","omnipotence","omniscience","petty","pity","praise","pride","prosperity","prosperity-gospel","selfish","skepticism","small-mindedness","thankfulness","theism","understanding","worship"],"id":161860,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Conscious minds can, at the most, comprehend that the whole idea of a 'God' is his superiority, his omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience; and therefore, at the least, desire him, someone far greater than themselves.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["apologetics","consciousness","desire","god","holiness","love","mind","omnipotent","omnipresent","omniscience","relationship","spiritual","superiority","thinking","understanding"],"id":187858,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}