Nancy Abrams

“People often ask me, “Do you seriously expect this idea of God to change the world? What about all the fanatics and terrorists?” All I can say is that the only thing that changes the world is an idea that lights our fire at a moment when we are surrounded by dry, dead kindling. Today is that kind of time. Spiritual transformation doesn’t require a majority vote. It doesn’t matter if most people don’t get it. All it takes is a committed minority, because the committed lead culture. The new scientific picture of the universe is a modern revelation. For many the realization that God can be real and is emerging from human aspirations will also be a revelation. That these revelations are both happening now, at so pivotal a moment for our species, is truly grace. They have helped me move into the new universe and feel blessed and awestruck every day, as though I’d moved from a dark basement apartment into a mountain aerie with a hundred-mile view in all directions. I don’t expect millions of people to change their ideas of God overnight, but to those who care about the human future and can see beyond ideology, to those who believe that truth matters, and to those who recognize the potential of humanity but don’t see how to make us rise to that potential, it could make all the difference to discover a God that is real.”
― Nancy Abrams, A God That Could be Real: Spirituality, Science, and the Future of Our Planet

“The holy grail of science may be to explain the universe without God, but the holy grail of a flourishing scientific civilization must be to find a scientifically accurate understanding of us humans in this universe and express it, live it, and share it so that it inspires and empowers us for the future.”
― Nancy Abrams, A God That Could be Real: Spirituality, Science, and the Future of Our Planet