God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
VoltaireThe Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is better than no image at all. I think he will feel a good deal more kinship with backwoods prophets and shouting fundamentalists than he will with those politer elements for whom the supernatural is an embarrassment and for whom religion has become a department of sociology or culture or personality development.
Flannery O'ConnorTags: religion
Reason excludes faith," Alessandro responded, watching the blood-red mite as it made a dash for the rim. "It's deliberately limited. It won't function with the materials of religion. You can come close to proving the existence of God by reason, but you can't do it absolutely. That's because you can't do anything absolutely by reason. That's because reason depends on postulates. Postulates defy proof and yet they are essential to reason. God is a postulate. I don't think God is interested in the verification of His existence, and, therefore, neither am I. Anyway, I have professional reasons to believe. Nature and art pivot faithfully around God. Even dogs know that.
Mark HelprinAll this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.
Marcel DuchampTags: life society god religion atheism language chess
I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world.
Christopher HitchensTags: inspirational power belief god religion humility atheism fantasy arrogance respect modesty
Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.
Garrison KeillorI think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
Alice WalkerTags: god religion color purple
In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: christianity religion christian-behavior
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C.S. LewisTags: reading religion atheism
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: experience belief religion faith judging-from-experience unseen
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