Believe In God Quotes - Page 29

• I believe in God, and that's a personal relationship that I have, but I'm not religious in any way.

  Joe Jonas

  Religious, Believe, Way

  "12 Shocking Reveals from Joe Jonas' Magazine Confessional" by Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 2, 2013.

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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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• 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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• 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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• I don't believe in God, but I have this idea that if there were a God, or destiny of some kind looking down on us, that if he saw you taking anything for granted he'd take it away.

  Hugh Laurie

  Believe, Destiny, Ideas

  "Stargazing: Heather's Angry, Jane is Ill, Hugh is Anxious". The Kansas City Star, October 31, 2007.

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• Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, "Vengeance is mine." [...] He believes in you.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Believe, Finals, Lessons

  "Fictional character: Abbe Faria". "The Count of Monte Cristo", www.imdb.com. January 23, 2002.

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• It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.

  Aldous Huxley

  Believe, Night, Thinking

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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

  Michael Landon

  Believe, Family Love, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God.

  Francis Chan

  Believe, People, Giving

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.14, David C Cook

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• If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly, but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.

  Orson Scott Card

  Believe, Doubt, World

  "The Call Of Earth". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1992.

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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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• sometimes you get run down. sometimes life throws dirt in your eyes and it stings and you can't see for a few minutes. even after you get it out your eyes are all red and your vision is shitty... but eventually, whether through tears or maybe just time... you start to see even clearer than before. life is not always good. which is why music exists. why i believe God exists. and why there's always a pint of coconut milk ice cream in my freezer.

  Hayley Williams

  Running, Believe, Eye

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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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• 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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• 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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