If There Is A God Quotes

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

i cannot be called upon to know a negative or to prove a negative. if there is a god and you prove it, that’s fine. but you don’t tell me you can’t know that there isn’t. i would say yes i know there isn’t because i have been given no evidence.

What can you ever really know of other people’s souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him.

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

I’ve often told people who ask if there is a God: Get around enough people with horses and see what happens. See how they survive in spite of all the things they do, and you’ll become a believer!

My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.

From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock I stand. That he will not torture the forgiving. Upon that rock I stand. That every man should be true to himself, and that there is no world, no star in which honesty is a crime. Upon that rock I stand.

O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

Are you asking me if there is a god?’ he said, still in that soft voice. ‘All I can say is, I believe there is. I feel him when I sing. He has responded to my prayers countless times. He guides my actions and he dwells in my heart. I know he is there.