Vaclav Hlavaty quotes

The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.
-- Vaclav Hlavaty

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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.

And if the years vanish in their course, they are still only successions of days that pass right through us as we pass through them in order to seek constantly what You have to show us... to remain constantly in Your embrace, just as the whole of time remains in the embrace of eternity.

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fully understand. If someone wants to place the word 'God' on those collections of words, it's OK with me.

The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.

As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.

I say I'm Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin all wrapped up into one. If I die early ... I'll be just like those guys.

The most important relationship is the mind's relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate - and, really, the only - relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.