If There Is A God Quotes

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.

The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.

I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race... If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British Red as possible...

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

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

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.

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, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.

If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.

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.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as though somebody has fine tuned nature's numbers to make the Universe. . . The impression of design is overwhelming.

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

A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.

Look, I don't know whether God exists. I don't know that. And I tell you one thing, I am not frightened of my beliefs. If there is a God who is threatening me with damnation because I don't believe in Him, so be it. I've lived my life in conscience, and I will suffer damnation willingly in conscience against a tyrannical God who would damn me because, on the basis of the intelligence He gave me, I have come to a conclusion doubting His existence, and I will continue to be a skeptic all of my life.

I don't think it matters if there is a god or not. I've met people who believe in God that are good and that are bad. And I've met people who don't believe in God that are good and that are bad. So, just be good. I'm good. Not cos I think I'll go to heaven but because when I do something bad, I feel bad. And when I do something good, I feel good.

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

There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.

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.

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

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.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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, 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.