Dan Brown: Trending quotes (page 2)

“The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.”

Dan Brown book Inferno

Source: Inferno

Decision , Past

Dan Brown book The Da Vinci Code

Source: The Da Vinci Code

Love

“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.”

Dan Brown book Angels & Demons

Source: Angels & Demons

Truth , Faith , Search , Understanding

“Faith ― acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.”

Dan Brown book The Da Vinci Code

Source: The Da Vinci Code

Faith , Faith , Imagination

“I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.”

Dan Brown

Interview at Brown's official site http://www.danbrown.com/novels/davinci_code/faqs.html
Context: Interestingly, if you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as absolute historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell. Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious — that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment. I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

Life , Religion , Question , Learning

“Interestingly, if you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers.”

Dan Brown

Interview at Brown's official site http://www.danbrown.com/novels/davinci_code/faqs.html
Context: Interestingly, if you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as absolute historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell. Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious — that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment. I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

People

“The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.”

Dan Brown book The Lost Symbol

Source: The Lost Symbol

God

“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.”

Dan Brown book Angels & Demons

Variant: Science tells me God must exist.
My mind tells me I'll never understand God.
My heart tells me I'm not meant to.

[Vittoria Vetra]
Source: Angels & Demons

God , Understanding , Science , Heart

“God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.”

Dan Brown book Angels & Demons

Source: Angels & Demons

God , Change

“Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.”

Dan Brown book The Da Vinci Code

Source: The Da Vinci Code

Music , Feeling

“Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.”

Dan Brown book The Lost Symbol

Source: The Lost Symbol