Believe In God Quotes - Page 27

• Most scientists who are religious look for God in what science does understand and has explained. So the way in which my view is different from the creationists or intelligent design proponents is that I find knowledge a compelling reason to believe in God. They find ignorance a compelling reason to believe in God.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Religious, Believe, Ignorance

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• It is a virtue to admit ignorance when you don't know, but not to wallow in ignorance as an end in itself.
  People say if we don't believe god is watching over us, we abandon morality. Are they right?

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Ignorance, People

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• Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god.

  Daniel Dennett

  Believe, Religion, Belief

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• You can't get through seminary and come out believing in God!

  Daniel Dennett

  Believe, Religion, Seminary

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• When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

  Philip Roth

  Believe, Religion, World

  "Philip Roth on Fame, Sex and God". Interview with Rita Braver, www.cbsnews.com. October 3, 2010.

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• Are you never afraid of God's judgement in denying him? Most certainly not. I also deny Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and Brahma, but this causes me no qualms. I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Thinking, Odin

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• Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.

  Daniel Dennett

  Believe, People, Atheism

  "How To Save Our Secular America!" by Jack Huberman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 5, 2007.

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• Fanaticism is such a blind stuff that it can never give you any idea as to what is reality. Because whatever you believe into, you build up your own ideas and everything onto it and it's like a fake palace built on a fake idea. And then you go on fighting. If God is one, if His love is one, then how can people who believe in God fight?

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Believe

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• People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.

  Michael Shermer

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

  Michael Shermer (2005). “The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule”, p.116, Macmillan

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• By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Atheist, Believe, Simple

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• I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Believe, Would Be, Needs

  "Critic Kenneth Tynan Has Mellowed But Is Still England's Stingingest Gadfly" by Godfrey Smith, archive.nytimes.com. January 9, 1966.

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• When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Believe, Men

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• If I were to believe in a god l would believe in gods. I think monotheism is the really ghastly thing. That is the absolutely staggering to me misapprehension.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Thinking, Staggering

  "The Importance of Unbelief". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Men, Religion

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.486, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't believe in God. Just try getting a plumber on the weekend.

  Woody Allen

  Believe, Weekend, Trying

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• If you don't believe God has forgiven you, you are actually saying that God needs to do more for your forgiveness, and that Jesus' sacrifice was not enough.

  Jud Wilhite

  Jesus, Believe, Sacrifice

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• I don't really know what the prosperity gospel is. The way I define it is that I believe God wants you to prosper in your health, in your family, in your relationships, in your business, and in your career. So I do ... if that is the prosperity gospel, then I do believe that.

  Joel Osteen

  Believe, Careers, Want

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Through all history, from the beginning, a noble army of martyrs have fought fiercely and fallen bravely for that unseen mistress, their country. So, through all history, to the end, as long as men believe in God that army must still march and fall, recruited only from the flower of mankind, cheered only by their own hope of humanity, strong only in the confidence of their cause.

  George William Curtis

  Country, Strong, Believe

  George William Curtis (1894). “Orations and Addresses of George William Curtis: On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”

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• I happen to be a devout atheist. I don't believe in God. I still go to church -- I'm not a heathen. I go to an atheist church. We have crippled guys who stand up and testify that they were crippled, and they still are.

  Paula Poundstone

  Atheist, Believe, Guy

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• [On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Believe, Belief, Music Is

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• I do believe in God. That's why I'm alive.

  Eric Massa

  Believe, Alive, I'm Alive

  "Exclusive: Eric Massa on 'Glenn Beck'". "The Glenn Beck Radio Program", www.foxnews.com. March 9, 2010.

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• In real life, Keaton believes in God. But she also believes that the radio works because there are tiny people inside it.

  Woody Allen

  Real, Believe, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Believing in God is a very intense inner struggle of mine. It's something I worry about a lot, but which I don't have the answer to.

  Emily Watson

  Believe, Struggle, Worry

  "This much I know: Emily Watson". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2012.

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• I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me.

  Natalie Angier

  Atheist, Powerful, Believe

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• Prayer is a law of the universe, like gravity. You don't even have to believe in God to ask.

  Sophy Burnham

  Prayer, Believe, Law

  Sophy Burnham (2002). “The Path of Prayer: Reflections on Prayer and True Stories of How It Affects Our Lives”, Viking Adult

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