Believe In God Quotes - Page 29

• When I was 13, I told my parents I didn't believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women's freedoms.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Believe, Parent, Should

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• I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Believe, Easier, Structure

  William F. Buckley Jr. (2010). “Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus”, p.530, Encounter Books

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• Evolution, as a mechanism, can be and must be true. But that says nothing about the nature of its author. For those who believe in God, there are reasons now to be more in awe, not less.

  Francis Collins

  Believe, Evolution, Reason

  Francis Collins (2008). “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not going to happen through technology or our intellectual abilities but only through prayer. When we pray, God works. We believe God blesses churches that bless missions.

  David Jeremiah

  Prayer, Believe, Technology

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• As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action.

  Herschel Walker

  Christian, Believe, Action

  Herschel Walker, Gary Brozek, Jerry Mungadze, Charlene Maxfield (2009). “Breaking Free: My Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.

  Ofra Haza

  Happiness, Laughter, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is no logical reason to believe in God. There are emotional reasons, certainly, but I cannot have faith that nothing is something simply because it would be reassuring. I can no more believe in God than I can believe an invisible monkey lives in my ass; however, I would believe in both if they could be scientifically proven.

  Andrew Davidson

  Believe, Emotional, Would Be

  Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.344, Canongate Books

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• But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system - we will have something without heart.

  Lee Greenwood

  Believe, Heart, People

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• To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Believe, Belief, Force

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• I start off with the obvious, that it makes no sense either to believe or to disbelieve in God until a substantial and intelligent definition or concept should be offered. Belief or disbelief is a secondary consideration, contingent on the intelligibility and cogency of the premise; the primal unintelligence or irrationality of moderns is revealed by their eagerness to leap to a conclusion without ever being curious what the hell the original premise was.

  Kenny Smith

  God, Believe, Intelligent

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• I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.

  Karl G. Maeser

  Teacher, Children, Believe

  Sentence-Sermons from Brigham Young University Quarterly. The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Volume 70, 1908.

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• It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Book, Believe, Heart

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.

  Michael Landon

  Believe, Family Love, People

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• If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.

  Shane Claiborne

  Believe, Grace, World

  "What If Jesus Meant All That Stuff?" by Shane Claiborne, www.esquire.com. November 18, 2009.

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• I used to believe in God. The Christian one, that is (There are a few thousand to choose from. But I was born in a country where the dominant religion was Christianity so I believed in that one. Isn't it weird how that always happens?). Luckily I was also interested in science and nature. And reason and logic. And honesty and truth. And equality and fairness. By the age of eight I was an atheist.

  Ricky Gervais

  Christian, Country, Atheist

  "Repeat offender: New Humanist interviews Ricky Gervais". New Humanist interview, newhumanist.org.uk. September 5, 2011.

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• The least Anararchic person in that conversation is the person saying 'you can't be an anarchist if you believe in god.' Because that's not an argument, it's just a statement. Why would somebody accept that? Because they either bow to your authority or they are afraid of your aggression. That's threatening to be another kind of ruler. Does that make any sense?

  Stefan Molyneux

  Believe, Doe, Bows

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• Who one believes God to be is most accurately revealed not in any credo but in the way one speaks to God when no one else is listening.

  Nancy Mairs

  Prayer, Believe, Listening

  Nancy Mairs (1993). “Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• You don't believe in God, Rachel. You don't believe in goodness or love or mercy, do you?" "I haven't seen enough to form an opinion." "But you believe in the devil?" "When I'm sitting in a car with him, yes," she said.

  Anne Stuart

  Believe, Car, Devil

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• Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they're there, they know they're there for a purpose, they'd probably agree that they have a place in a well-organised universe, but they wouldn't see the point of believing, of going around saying "O great table, without whom we are as naught." Anyway, either the gods are there whether you believe in them or not, or exist only as a function of the belief, so either way you might as well ignore the whole business and, as it were, eat off your knees.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, People, Purpose

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• I believe in God. Maybe not the Catholic God or even the Christian one because I have a hard time seeing any God as elitist. I also have a hard time believing that anything that created rain forests and oceans and an infinite universe would, in the same process, create something as unnatural as humanity in its own image. I believe in God, but not as a he or she or an it, but as something that defines my ability to conceptualize within the rather paltry frames of reference I have on hand.

  Dennis Lehane

  Christian, Rain, Believe

  Dennis Lehane (2011). “A Drink Before The War”, p.166, Random House

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• The Bible is not interested in arguing, because if you state a thesis of belief you have already stated it's opposite; if you say, I believe in God, you have already suggested the possibility of not believing in him. [p.250]

  Northrop Frye

  Believe, Opposites, Belief

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• Now how can anybody look at that and not believe in God? I mean, how can anybody look at this and not believe there is some higher power, some divine force at work in the universe greater than Man, some god that created it, that created all this, that created us?

  Katharine Hepburn

  Believe, Mean, Men

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• But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task...' It is wanting to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.

  Truman Capote

  Believe, Passion, Dark

  Truman Capote (1955). “Other voices, other rooms”, Modern Library

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• Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don’t believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Would Be, Witch

  "Witches Abroad". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1991.

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• In life, we don't know why things happen. I believe God is not responsible for the bad things that happen to you. Sometimes I think He's responsible for the good things, but sometimes it's something you shape up for yourself.

  Buck Brannaman

  Believe, Thinking, Why Things Happen

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