How does a cosmos without a bearded, bathrobed God in the sky pull off all the things that a bearded, bathrobed guy in the sky was supposed to have pulled off? If there was no God who said 'Let there be light,' where did we get all that light?
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Related In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. The... ELLEN DEGENERES Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He wo... SPIKE MILLIGAN And God said: Let there be light: and there was light. BIBLE In the beginning there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still no... DAVE THOMAS In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was s... ELLEN DEGENERES In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There w... ELLEN DEGENERES Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! ALEXANDER POPE And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have... SPIKE MILLIGAN I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER In the beginning there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still nothing bu... DAVE THOMAS In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, "Let there be Light." And there was still nothing... DAVE WEINSTEIN "Conversation"God and I in space alone . . .and nobody else in view . . ."And where are all the peop... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Conversation"God and I in space alone . . .and nobody else in view . . ."And where are all the peopl... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Jacques Doillon wanted me to be in his film, 'La Fille Prodigue,' and there I was, expecting... JANE BIRKIN Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;
God said "Let Newton be" and all was light. ALEXANDER POPE Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;God said "Let Newton be" and all was light. ALEXANDER POPE Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in night; God said, Let Newton be, and all was light. T.Z. LAVINE Nature and Nature’s Laws lay hid in Night; God said “Let Newton be!” and All was Light. ROBERT P. CREASE She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. SARAH J. MAAS I'm so old old that when God said let there be light I was like "Well that's better" KRIS HUEN There's a duality of a guy calling on God: 'Where are you when I need you?' and then, at... JOE CARNAHAN Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was light. ALEXANDER POPE One day, my father said there was nothing outside infinity. He said the universe was like a cardboar... HUGO HAMILTON There was no wind in all that sweep of sky. FRANK YERBY Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Let there be light! Abba! Father, let there be light! In our dark moments we cry; let there be ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It was an interesting day to say the least, ... There was a big sell-off in light trading yesterday,... SHARON JOHNSON When God said "Let there be light" Chuck Norris said "Say Please." CHUCK NORRIS You make a movie, and if there's a red light flashing in the distance, everyone thinks that the ... DITO MONTIEL The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA "Conversation" God and I in space alone . . . and nobody else in view . . . "And wh... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light ... FOREST WHITAKER If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER This was no peck on the lips. This was a real first kiss, a movie-star-knock-her-socks-off-fireworks... CAROL FRAGALE BRILL When there's light shining on a tree, that tree takes on different meaning. If there's no li... MATISYAHU You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER I haven't experienced anything paranormal yet, but I did see what I think was a meteor light up ... RYAN LEE The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS There's an assumption that my audience is all these bearded twats from Dalston. But actually, qu... STEWART LEE I was in Africa once. I was in Kenya. I got off the plane, and I thought, 'Africa...' Some g... ED O'NEILL If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth . . . Then he said, "Let there be light." Whi... RICKY GERVAIS There was one I did called 'The Phantom,' and we did a sequel to that called, 'Return of... DAVID HEDISON In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all, and in and by all creatures, even in herbs and gra... JACOB BOEHME I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal... JOHN LENNON Darkness does not exist at all. It is merely the absence of light but it is essential for being ther... Q. M. SIDD Our problem in the 2015 general election was that for all the good stuff that was in the Labour mani... JEREMY CORBYN Light is god and God is light; For without light we’d have no consistent perception of reality, an... BREANNA CASELLA It's an incredible feat that he pulled off. There are second guessers who said he shouldn't have gon... DAVID ROBERTS Some things exist in our lives for but a brief moment. And we must let them go on to light another s... RENEE AHDIEH He who doesn’t believe that God can do everything believes in a god who can do something! He who k... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. ALAN WATTS She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to ... CARSON MCCULLERS If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there. BRIAN CLOUGH Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. A... JOHN PIPER Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all crea... ISAAC NEWTON Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, eve... RAY COMFORT No Difference Small as a peanut, Big as a giant, We're all the same size W... SHEL SILVERSTEIN There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consist... ROBERT BROWNING The only presence I ever truly need is the presence of God! DEDRICK D. L. PITTER It was all black in the plane. There was no more light, nothing. OLIVIER DUBOIS When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental thing... KATE GRENVILLE If I truly believe everything that's in that book, God is in control. He is in control. He's... SHAWN MICHAELS You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be i... BERTOLT BRECHT There is a light that glimmers along the darkening edge of an infinite horizon. In that light the he... RICK YANCEY All I'm saying is, is God the god who we look to for comfort during tragedies? Is he the god who... BENJAMIN WATSON There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. LEONARD COHEN I didn't care for humans at 16 and it hasn't gotten any better. They say one thing and do another. I... BOBBY W. MILLER the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Ponder what would be if there was nothing. Imagine an existence with no life, no light, no universe ... ANGEL FLORES Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and ... JOAN RIVERS we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right. GRATEFUL DEAD A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky... JULIEN GREEN Dad!" Jesus yelled. "Yes, son," God said. "That star's light just went out," Jesus told hi... ANTHONY T. HINCKS As far as getting my start, it was really Norman Lear, even aside from being on 'All in the Fami... ROB REINER The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new mor... BILLY GRAHAM Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help peop... PAT ROBERTSON In 'Sidney's Comet,' thanks to all the consumerism, all the garbage had to be put in dee... BRIAN HERBERT All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD I came to the realization that I'm a child of God, and that's my identity. If this all goes ... JON BELLION The light was luminescence and gloom, like the sky at midnight speckled with stars. All she could sm... SAMANTHA LEE CHURCHER I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal... JOHN LENNON The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars SYLVIA PLATH I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect for... FRANK SINATRA I started off at the Second City in Chicago... It's an improvisational theater that ostensibly d... STEPHEN COLBERT My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this ide... C.S. LEWIS God makes a way where there seems to be no way, what is impossible to man, is POSSIBLE with God.... ... FEMALE IMAGINATION The book is called 'A House in the Sky' because during the very, very darkest times, that wa... AMANDA LINDHOUT The morning light shimmered through the trees and gave the lake an otherworldly hue. Everything in s... VIOLA SHIPMAN Let the spark in you catch fire and burn into the air, so that it may light up the sky. SAIM .A. CHEEDA They said, 'Do we have a chance? I said, 'Yeah, we have a chance. I think we can pull off the upset.... DAVE KOHNEN The light of God is in you. Let your light shine! ELEAZAR If The Sky Was To Start Falling, How Many Of You Will Try Catching Clouds?...God Come First. FLAMESTARTA He already thought she was a weirdo, and this was just going to make her seem that much weirder. Did... RAINBOW ROWELL The ref said it was a push-off. I don't really remember. There was a lot of physical hand-fighting o... MAURICE STOVALL I loved Bonny, and I always prayed that God would sneak in there and get a little light in her life, BONNY BAKLEY
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DAVID BLOOM I mean, I have a great job. I get to dress up and become somebody else, especially when it's someone... ORLANDO BLOOM Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their childre... ALLAN BLOOM It really isn't about winning the medal for me. JEREMY BLOOM I'll have a week to put the cleats on and get ready. Is a week enough? I don't see why not. I've bee... JEREMY BLOOM I'm humbled to be here, and I'm very excited. The sport of football has been a huge passion of mine ... JEREMY BLOOM Well, this is America, so obviously football is the Big Daddy in this country. It gets the most atte... JEREMY BLOOM Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky,... PAUL BLOOM I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself. ORLANDO BLOOM Being referred to as a hunk or a heartthrob makes me nervous, but it's flattering. But I'm m... ORLANDO BLOOM If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; ... AMY BLOOM The definition of a musical is that the emotion is so strong that you can't talk anymore, you ha... RACHEL BLOOM When I arrive at my destination, I like to hit the gym, as I find exercise helps combat jet lag. ORLANDO BLOOM Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have ... PAUL BLOOM Whenever you see shrinks on television, they're so clearly written by patients. They're eith... AMY BLOOM I get to tell the most interesting stories I know how to tell with the most interesting sentences I ... AMY BLOOM The conference has been cognizant of certain risks involved with cheerleader stunts, tosses and pyra... CHARLES BLOOM