If There Is A God Quotes - Page 2

So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.

If there is a God, why did he make me an atheist?

If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

If there is a God, he is not doing a good job of protecting the earth. He's kind of checked out.

Most people in the world believe that if there is a God, you relate to God by being good. Most religions are based on that principle, though there are a million different variations on it...But they all have the same logic: If I perform, if I obey, I’m accepted. The gospel of Jesus is not only different from that but diametrically opposed to it: I’m fully accepted in Jesus Christ, and therefore I obey.

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

I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.

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

Nobody can tell what is right and what is wrong; what is righteous and what is evil. Even if there is a god and I had his teachings right before me, I would think it through and decide if that was right or wrong myself.

Then we shall... be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God.

Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.

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

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!

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

The churches had left me cold, but I thought there's got to be a God. I remember going out, this is in Charleston, South Carolina, and my desire then was to be a playwright, and I was studying theater, and I went out one night, late at night, and I asked, "What can God be if there is a God?" I wasn't sure there was a God, but if there is a God, what must he be? Well, he can't be a judge, who's up there just waiting for us to make a mistake so he can clap us into hell. There's got to be something more than that.

The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."

I'm glad some people have that faith. I don't have that faith. If there is a God, a caring God, then we have to figure he's done an extraordinary job of making a very cruel world.

If there is a God, he or she or it or whatever higher power there is is behind us so long as we're using our music in an inspirational way. I'm here for a reason, and I was given a talent, so I'll continue to try to use it.

To say that we cannot know anything about God is to say something about God; it is to say that if there is a God, he is unknowable. But in that case, he is not entirely unknowable, for the agnostic certainly thinks that we can know one thing about him: That nothing else can be known about him.

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