Seeking to assign blame for the devastation wrought by the Asian tsunami, a television journalist asked a Jesuit priest if God could be held accountable. The priest replied that we cannot hold God accountable for anything unless we first believe in Him.
The late Albert Einstein was the most celebrated physicist of the past century. Although he was not traditionally devout, his life was devoted to a search for God through science.
"God does not play dice with the universe," he affirmed. "Randomness was no explanation for why things happen. Rather, there are laws behind everything, which simply haven't as yet been discovered."
Either there is no such thing as a miracle, he said, or everything is a miracle.
Rejecting atheism, Einstein explained: "We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is."
Once, while Einstein was lecturing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a student challenged him by demanding "What is beyond infinity?" Without hesitation the scientist replied: "The face of God."
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