1. “When God is on your side, you have options a man like you could never comprehend”
2. “No good deed goes unpunished.”
3. “Relax,” Langdon whispered. “Do your piranha thing.”
4. “Hell, no. A church is the one thing we don’t have. Physics is the religion around here. Use the Lord’s name in vain all you like,’ he laughed, ‘just don’t slander any quarks or mesons.”
5. “The image on the page was that of a human corpse. The body had been stripped naked, and its head had been twisted, facing completely backward. On the victim’s chest was a terrible burn. The man had been branded…imprinted with a single word.”
6. “Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.”
7. “One does not need to have cancer to analyze its symptoms.”
8. “Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called on to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.”
9. “From Santi’s earthly tomb with demon’s hole,
‘Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold.
The path of light is laid, the sacred test,
Let angels guide you on your lofty quest.”
10. “Hardly. Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.”
11. “Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.”
12. “Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.”
13. “If it wasn’t painfully difficult, you did it wrong!”
14. “Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn.”
15. “rational mind had always justified these accounts as part of the myth. They were simply the result of man’s greatest weakness – his need for proof. Miracles were nothing but stories we all clung to because we wished they were true. And”
16. “Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faiths… all faiths… are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable. With faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth. Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed. The church consists of a brotherhood of imperfect, simple souls wanting only to be a voice of compassion in a world spinning out of control.”
17. “From Santi’s earthly tomb with demon’s hole, ‘Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold. The path of light is laid, the sacred test, Let angels guide you on your lofty quest.”
18. Camerlengo: “So although you have the power to interfere and prevent your child’s pain, you would choose to show you love by letting him learn his own lessons?
Chatrand: Of course. “Pain is part of growing up. It’s how we learn.”
Camerlengo: “Exactly.”
19. “The most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears.”
20. “As we get closer to critical hour, we will make critical decisions.”
21. “What’s the matter?” She immediately started laughin. ”What’s the mattter? Everything is the matter! Rocks! Trees! Atoms! Even anteaters! Everything is the matter!”
22. “Angels and demons were identical–interchangeable archetypes–all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer.”
23. “As a scientist I have come to learn that information is only as valuable as its source.”
24. “God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is ‘no’.”
25. “Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government’s facade of infallibility, and you remove it’s people’s faith.”
26. “Man’s morality was not advancing as fast as man’s science. Mankind was not spiritually evolved enough for the powers he possessed. We have never created a weapon we have not used!”
27. “This is not some silly game…This is life and death Angels and demons.”
28. “God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.”
29. “And yet remarkable solutions to seemingly impossible problems often occur in these moments of clarity. It’s what gurus call higher consciousness. Biologists call it altered states. Psychologists call it super-sentience. And Christians call it answered prayer. Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows.”
30. “The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.”
31. “…In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.”
32. “Because love and hate were supposed to stand cleanly on opposite sides of the spectrum. The division seemed as clear as…well, angels and demons would once have seemed to her. Not anymore.”
33. “I don’t care what you say about me, just spell my name right!”
34. “As he flushed, an unexpected realization hit him. This is the Pope’s toilet, he thought. I just took a leak in the Pope’s toilet. He had to chuckle. The Holy Throne.”
35. Chatrand: “Terrible things happen in this world. Human tragedy seems like proof that God could not possibly be both all-powerful and well-meaning. If He loves us and has the power to change our situation, He would prevent our pain, wouldn’t he?”
Camerlengo: “Would He?”
Chatrand: Well… if God Loves us, and He can protect us, He would have to. It seems He is either omnipotent and uncaring, or benevolent and powerless to help.”
36. “stand tall, smile bright, and let them wonder what secrets making you laugh!”
37. “Pain is part of growing up.It’s how we learn.”
38. “Both angels and demons are ignorant of the future, yet they make predictions. The angels do so when God reveals the future to them and commands them to prophesy, and what they prophesy comes to pass. Demons also make predictions, but these are only guesses based on what they see from afar.”
39. “One square yard of drag will slow a falling body almost twenty percent.”
40. “Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
41. “The rising and setting of the sun was once attributed to Helios and a flaming chariot. Earthquakes and tidal waves were the wrath of Poseidon. Science has now proven those gods to be false idols. Soon all gods will be proven to be false idols. Science has now provided answers to almost every question man can ask.”
42. “Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history?”
43. “Religion has always persecuted science.”
44. “Buddha had said:
“Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.”
45. “Vittoria slipped off her robe. ‘You’ve never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?”
46. “Antimatter is the most powerful energy source known to man. It”
47. “References to all works of art, tombs, tunnels, and architecture in Rome are entirely factual”
48. “The media is the right arm of anarchy.”
49. “But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?”
50. “Even the technology that promises to unite us, divides us. Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.”
51. “Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.”
52. “Neutrinos have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic!”
53. “Then, with a reeling horror, she knew. Staring up at her from the floor, discarded like a piece of trash, was an eyeball. She would have recognized that shade of hazel anywhere.”
54. “Science and religion were not enemies, but rather allies – two different languages telling the same story, a story of symmetry and balance… heaven and hell, night and day, hot and cold, God and Satan. Both science and religion rejoiced in God’s symmetry… the endless contest of ight and dark.”
55. “Real world signore. You’re in it tonight”
56. “Each of us is a God, Buddha had said. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.”
57. “He looked like a man searching for an out. Any out.”
58. “Nothing captured human interest like human tragedy.”
59. “He warned that any church that ignored reality would not survive to enjoy the divine.”
60. “Your victory has been inevitable. Never before has it been as obvious as it is at this moment. Science is the new God.” What”
61. “No love is greater than that of a father for His son.”
62. “Langdon whispered to Vittoria. ‘Ever fire anything other than a tranquilizer gun?’
‘Don’t you trust me?’
‘Trust you? I barely know you.’
Vittoria frowned. ‘And here I thought we were newly-weds.”
63. “Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us.” Langdon”
64. “the most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears!”
65. “Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.”
66. “Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons – but they’re not out there.”
67. “genius accepts genius unconditionally”
68. “Seek the goodness, become the goodness.”
69. “We all benefit from a sense of contact with divinity… even if it is only imagined.”
70. “Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.”
71. “So as this child’s father, you would give him some basic, good advice and then let him go off and make his own mistakes?”
“I wouldn’t run behind him and mollycoddle him if that’s what you mean.”
“But what if he fell and skinned his knee?”
“He would learn to be more careful.”
“So although you have the power to interfere and prevent your child’s pain, you would choose to show your love by letting him learn his own lessons?”
“Of course. Pain is part of growing up. It’s how we learn.”
The camerlengo nodded. “Exactly.”
72. “Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.”
73. “To fly or not to fly, that’s the question.”
74. “And we’re locked in.”
“I am actually aware of that.”
“I mean the guard is locked out”
75. “Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.”