Dan Brown Quotes

A little faith can do wonders, a little faith.

This guy eluded the French police... in loafers?

-Chief Anderson

Would you rather live in a world without technology…or in a world without religion? Would you rather live without medicine, electricity, transportation, and antibiotics…or without zealots waging war over fictional tales and imaginary spirits?

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Science may have alleviated the miseries of disease and drudgery and provided an array of gadgetry for our entertainment and convenience, but it has left us in a world without wonder. 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. Science proclaims that Planet Earth and its inhabitants are a meaningless speck in the grand scheme. A cosmic accident.” He paused. “Even the technology that promises to unite us, divides us. Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone. We are bombarded with violence, division, fracture, and betrayal. Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history? Does science hold anything sacred? Science looks for answers by probing our unborn fetuses. Science even presumes to rearrange our own DNA. It shatters God’s world into smaller and smaller pieces in quest of meaning . . . and all it finds is more questions.

Fighting communicable disease was often like fighting a forest fire: sometimes you had to drop back and surrender a battle in hopes of winning the war.

Dante Alighieri. The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

Sometimes you need to go up...to go down.

God is not some omnipotent authority looking down from above, threatening to throw us into a pit of fire if we disobey. God is the energy that flows through the synapses of our nervous system and the chambers of our hearts! God is in all things!

منذ الحروب الصليبية إلى دواوين التفتيش إلى السياسة الأمريكية تم استغلال اسم المسيح في جميع أشكال الصراع على السلطة. ومنذ القدم كان صوت الجهل هو الأعلى، يقود الشعوب ويجبرها على الانصياع. فدافع الجهلة عن رغباتهم الدنيوية محتجين بجمل لا يفهمونها من الكتاب المقدس. وتمسكوا بتعصبهم كدليل على قناعاتهم. والآن بعد كل تلك السنوات تمكن البشر أخيرا من محو كل ما هو جميل في المسيح.

أشار سولومون إلى صبي صغير أحمر الشعر الجالس في الوسط
قال الصبي وقد بدا عليه الارتباك: سيد سولومون؟ قلت أن أسلافنا هربوا من القمع الديني في أوروبا لتأسيس بلاد على مبادئ التقدم العلمي
- هذا صحيح
ولكن كنت أظن أن آبائنا رجال متدينون أسسوا أميركا كأمة مسيحية
ابتسم سولومون وأجاب
- يا أصدقائي لا تخطئوا فهمي. كان أسلافنا رجالا متدينين جدا ولكنهم كانوا ربوبيين أي أنهم يؤمنون بالله ولكن على نحو كوني ومنفتح. والمثال الديني الوحيد الذي وضعوه نصب اعينهم كان الحرية الدينية.
نزع الميكرفون عن المنبر ومشى به إلى طرف المسرح
- كان لدى أسلاف أميركا رؤية عن مدينة فاضلة مستنيرة روحيا تحل فيها حرية التفكير وتعليم العامة والتقدم العلمي محل ظلام المعتقدات الدينية القديمة غير الصحيحة.

الصدفة أمر أقل شيوعا بكثير مما يتصور أغلب الناس.

Throughout history, all of mankind’s disparate philosophies have all concurred on one thing — - that a great enlightenment is coming.

And all the while, you proclaim the church is ignorant. But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power? This church is reaching out to you. Reaching out to everyone. And yet the more we reach, the more you push us away. Show me proof there is a God, you say. I say use your telescopes to look to the heavens, and tell me how there could not be a God!’ The camerlengo had tears in his eyes now. ‘You ask what does God look like. I say, where did that question come from? The answers are one and the same. Do you not see God in your science? How can you miss Him!

I am not an atheist — I think I'm happily confused and a work in progress; I'm sort of more agnostic. I do think that science has become the lens through which we see the world, more and more.