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Quotes About Paradox

The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.
~ Simone Weil
Is god omnipotent ? If he is, can he create a rock so heavy he can't lift it ?
~ Stephen Hawking
To this pass Christianity has come There is no God, and Jesus is his son.
~ Irving Layton
Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that's more likely and it will make things rather awkward in heaven, won't it? Will we all have to learn Hebrew?
~ Bernard Cornwell
Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly—because we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to god and there's always the chance that a folly will.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
God does not believe in our God.
~ Jules Renard
I am an atheist, thanks be to God.
~ Luis Bunuel
I'd like to thank God for making me an atheist.
~ Ricky Gervais
If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be saved, I should still choose the way of obedience.
~ Simone Weil
God is an iron... and that's a hot one.
~ Spider Robinson
I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.
~ Graham Greene
If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.
~ Jo Walton, Among Others
Greenfly, it's difficult to see Why God, who made the rose, made thee.
~ A. P. Herbert
The Saints come, as human as a mouth, with a bag of God in their backs, like a hunchback, they come, they come marching in.
~ Anne Sexton
Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
~ Bill Vaughan
Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.
~ Bill Vaughan
It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
~ Blaise Pascal
If God is all powerful, and Jesus is the son of God, why did He make His birthday fall on Christmas?
~ Dana Gould
They say that God is in the details. Then again, they also say that the Devil is in the details. Boy, talk about awkward.
~ Dana Gould
It's ironic that as scientists that don't believe in god, were the ones that are closest to god.
~ Hiromu Arakawa
That's funny because if anyone actually did prove the existence of God we'd just tell him 'nice proof, Fraa Bly' and start believing in God.
~ Neal Stephenson
The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.
~ T. S. Eliot
If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift?
~ Terry Goodkind
As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether.
~ Thomas Nash