If There Is A God Quotes

If there is a god, I think he has a sense of humour. He does not require human beings to protect him from satire.

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.

if there is a god, he sure hates people

It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in.

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.

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.

If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life.

It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.

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.

There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.

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.

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

If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

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.

And you know what? If there is a God, and it's that same God who's so eager to have temples built in honor of his greatness, and wars fought over him, and people dropping to their knees telling him what a wonderful, magnificent being he is? If this all-powerful, all-knowing creature for some reason just can't get by without my worship? Then let him give me some proof. Or at least get over himself if I decide to go out and get some.

If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.

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.

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

If there is a god, he is not only a wizard at leaving clues behind. More than anything, he's a master of concealment. And the world is not something that gives itself away. The heavens still keep their secrets. There is little gossip amongst the stars. But no one has forgotten the Big Bang yet. Since then, silence has reigned supreme, and every thing there is moving away. One can still come across a moon. Or a comet. Just don't expect friendly greetings. No visiting cards are printed in space.

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

No authority can save us, no beliefs. If there is a God, all can find Him. No one needs to be told it is warm; all can discover it for themselves. So it should be with God. He should be a fact in the consciousness of every person.

I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

I figure if there is a God, he or she isn’t paying attention to what we build or if we follow some elaborate rules, but copping a ride on our shoulders, watching what we do ever day. Seeing if we took this great big adventure called life and did something interesting with it.

If there is a god, the only genuine friend he has is an atheist. He does not blame him for anything.

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

What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

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

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

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable of knowing either what He is or if He is. [So] you must wager. Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that he is.

If there is a God, it is inconceivable that he would be concerned about my day to day affairs.

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.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

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

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?