Proof God Exists Quotes

• Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.

  Richard Dawkins

  Faith, Atheist, Thinking

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hate, If There Is A God, Christian Inspirational

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• I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Atheist, Creating, Religion

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Heywood Broun

  Atheist, If There Is A God, Religion

  "Collected Edition of Heywood Broun". Book by Heywood Broun (p. 26), 1941.

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• There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.

  C. S. Lewis

  Gnats, People, Religion

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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• It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

  Mark Twain

  Faith, Atheist, Believe

  Following the Equator ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr., September 28, 1949.

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• A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'

  Aaron Arrowsmith

  Christian, Religion, Atheism

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• Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics. This is why, when pressed, the atheist will often attempt to hide his lack of conviction in his own beliefs behind some poorly formulated utilitarianism, or argue that he acts out of altruistic self-interest. But this is only post-facto rationalization, not reason or rational behavior.

  Theodore Beale

  Atheist, Self, Religion

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• Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But watch out if you are in a lifeboat and there are others who are younger, bigger, or smarter.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Strong, Atheist, Philosophy

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• If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

  Evelyn Underhill

  God, Christian, Religious

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• I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Attitude, Humility

  Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr., from article by Michael R. Gilmore in Skeptic magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1997), September 28, 1949.

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• The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mind, Literature, Mouths

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• "I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing."
  "Oh," says man, "but the Babel Fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't. Q.E.D."
  "Oh, I hadn't thought of that," says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

  Douglas Adams

  Atheist, Men, Giving

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Book by Douglas Adams, Chapter 6, 1979.

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• I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.

  Barbara Walters

  Atheist, Equal Pay, Sin City

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• I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Ideas, Religion

  Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr. (28 September 1949), from article by Michael R. Gilmore in Skeptic magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1997.

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Bible, Jesus

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• The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

  Douglas Adams

  Atheist, Faith Religion, Atheism

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.

  Oswald Chambers

  Atheist, Attitude, Real

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.327, Discovery House

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• My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Private Albert Einstein". Book by Peter A. Bucky, 1992.

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• 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?

  Epicurus

  God, Spiritual, Religious

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• If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Eye, Dark

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Christian, Atheist

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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

  Epicurus

  Atheist, Omnipotence, If There Is A God

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• The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

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