Proof That God Exists Quotes

A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'

I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.

I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.

I don't know about you, but I call impromptu vomiting harm.

Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But watch out if you are in a lifeboat and there are others who are younger, bigger, or smarter.

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.

The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics. This is why, when pressed, the atheist will often attempt to hide his lack of conviction in his own beliefs behind some poorly formulated utilitarianism, or argue that he acts out of altruistic self-interest. But this is only post-facto rationalization, not reason or rational behavior.

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

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

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

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree