“Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.”
- Thomas Jefferson

“If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of him.”
The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back– Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Albert Einstein said:
“I’m not an atheist, and I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn’t know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We can see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations”.
Einstein and Religion, Jammer

Einstein also said:
“I have never found a better expression than “religious” for this trust in the rational nature of reality and of its peculiar accessibility to the human mind. Where this trust is lacking science degenerates into an uninspired procedure. Let the devil care if the priests make capital out of this. There is no remedy for that”.

Lettres a Maurice Solovine  (Paris: Gauthier-Vilars, 1956, Pg. 102-103:

“Certain it is that a conviction, akin to a religious feeling, of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all the scientific work of a higher order…This firm belief, a belief bound up with deep feeling, in a superior mind that reveals itself in the world of experience, represents my conception of God”.

Ideas and Opinions, Dell, 1973, Pg. 255:

“My religiosity consists of a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds, That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God”.

The Quotable Einstein, Alice Calaprice, Princeton University Press, 2005, Pg. 195-6:

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“Mathematics are an expression of – perhaps the deepest expression of – the most effective and powerful human faculty.  If not virtually a byword for human potential. It (math) may be, at the same time, where we come from and where we want to return. When we use it we access, affect and co-create reality as effectively as we do in any other way-if not more. It (math) comes from something universal and basic in us…possibly as basic as the sex drive.
If not the poetry of the soul at the very least its prose.
-David Klein