DANA, James Dwight Quotes
(1813-1895), American geologist
An agnostic is a man who doesn't know whether there is a God or not, doesn't know whether he has a soul or not, doesn't know whether there is a future life or not, doesn't believe that any one else knows any more about these matters than he does, and thinks it a waste of time to try to find out.
The grand old Book of God still stands, and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the sacred Word.
A voice within us speaks that startling word, "Man, thou shaft never die!"—Celestial voices hymn it to our souls; according harps, by angel fingers touched, do sound forth still the song of our great immortality.
A voice within us speaks that startling word, "Man, thou shaft never die!" Celestial voices hymn to our souls; according harps, by angel fingers touched, do sound forth still the song of great immortality.
There can be no real conflict between science and the Bible—between nature and the Scriptures—the two books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by him to man; the earlier telling of God-made harmonies coming up from the deep past, and rising to their height when man appeared; the later teaching man's relations to his Maker, and speaking of loftier harmonies in the eternal future.
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