19 Quotes by Gerald Schroeder

Biblical commentators [say that] the first six days of Genesis were six 24-hour days. This means that whoever was in charge recorded the passage of 24 hours per day. But who was there to measure the passage of time? Until Adam appeared on day six, God was watching the clock. And that is the key.

Knowing the plumbing of the universe, intricate and awe-inspiring though that plumbing might be, is a far cry from discovering its purpose.

We can say the word “metaphysical,” meaning that which exists outside of the physical, but we cannot comprehend the metaphysical.

From the tiniest grain of sand to the brain of an Einstein, all existence, animate and inanimate, is the product of the same ninety-two elements that are themselves the harvest of the energy of the creation. At every turn an underlying commonality, a unity, emerges from within the diversity.

Spirituality not rooted in the reality of life’s material needs rarely effects a meaningful gain.

Psalm 19:1 declares: “The heavens proclaim the glory of God; the sky declares His handiwork.

Light beams became alive, and became not only alive, but self-aware, and acquired the ability to wonder. The wonder is not whether this genesis took six days or fourteen billion years or even eternity.

Psalms 90:4: “A thousand years in your sight are like a day that passes.

Why is there an “is”? Why is there something rather than nothing? For that answer both science and religion must turn to the metaphysical.