Quotes by Dan Brown

God is found in the collection of Many. . . rather than in the One.

I am not questioning Gods power! It is God who gave us reason and circumspection! It is God we serve by exercising prudence!

There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist

When his brain died, all of the memoriesheld in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporatein a flood of chemical reactions.

The man now retrieved a linen cloth and stuffed it deep into Katherine’s mouth. “Death,” hewhispered to her, “should be a quiet thing.

It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist

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.

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

Science tells me God must exist.My mind tells me Ill never understand God.My heart tells me Im not meant to. [Vittoria Vetra]

Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of mans quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of Gods hands?

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

For centuries the church has stood by while science picked away at religion bit by bit. Debunking miracles. Training the mind to overcome the heart. Condemning religion as the opiate of the masses. They denounce God as a hallucination - a delusional crutch for those too weak to accept that life is meaningless. I could not stand by while science presumed to harness the power of God himself! Proof, you say? Yes, proof of sciences ignorance! What is wrong with the admission that something exists beyond our understanding? The day science substantiates God in a lab is the day people stop needing faith!

He respected the power of faith, the benevolence of churches, the strength religion gave so many people . . . and yet, for him, the one intellectual suspension of disbelief that was imperative if one were truly going to believe had always proved too big an obstacle for his academic mind. I want to believe, he heard himself say.

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.

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

Professor Langdon, called a young man with curly hair in the back row, if Masonry is not a secret society, not a corporation, and not a religion, then what is it?Well, if you were to ask a Mason, he would offer the following definition: Masonry is a system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.Sounds to me like a euphemism for freaky cult. Freaky, you say?Hell yes! the kid said, standing up. I heard what they do inside those secret buildings! Weird candlelight rituals with coffins, and nooses, and drinking wine out of skulls. Now thats freaky!Langdon scanned the class. Does that sound freaky to anyone else?Yes! they all chimed in.Langdon feigned a sad sigh. Too bad. If thats too freaky for you, then I know youll never want to join my cult.Silence settled over the room. The student from the Womens Center looked uneasy. Youre in a cult?Langdon nodded and lowered his voice to a conspiratorial whisper. Dont tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh.The class looked horrified.Langdon shrugged. And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion.The classroom remained silent.Langdon winked. Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.

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.

Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.

It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.

Dont tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh. ...And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion.