If There Is A God Quotes

We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.

If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.

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?

You can’t convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it’s based on a deep seated need to believe

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

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

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. . . .

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.

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

If there is a God, there should be no slaves.

Amazing fine tuning occurs in the laws that make this complexity possible. Realization of the complexity of what is accomplished makes it very difficult not to use the word ‘miraculous’ without taking a stand as to the ontological status of the word.

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

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.

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

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.

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

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