If There Is A God quotes
74 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything."
"If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters."
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is."
"If there is a God, he is a malign thug."
"I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God."
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"If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?"
"So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk."
"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."
"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it."
"The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality."
"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."
"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."
"There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions."
"I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life."
"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."
"It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none."
"If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life."
"If there is a God what the hell is He for?"
"If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war."
"if there is a god, he sure hates people"
"If there is a god, the only genuine friend he has is an atheist. He does not blame him for anything."
"Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are then incapable of knowing of either what He is or if He is. . . ."
"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."
"If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a suspicion that God is still trying to work things out and hasn't finished."
