Quotes About Belief

At best, God can be viewed as nothing more than an uncaring incompetent father-figure

I have never come to know God, to see God, to believe in God through doing science. He's not the conclusion of some sort of process of my personal scientific investigation.

When we trust our brother, whom we have seen, we are learning to trust God, whom we have not seen.

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

We act like God's only good when the outcome is good. We say, 'We've got a good God because I've got a good job.' But what if I don't have a good job? Does that mean God's not good anymore?

The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him.

If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.

To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.

Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely, merely more desirable (many people cannot tell the difference)

I don't believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.

I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.

I believe God created the world for a purpose. The Designer of intelligent design is, ultimately, the Christian God.

Even people who don't share my specific faith (denomination, beliefs, etc.) are typically enthusiastic about my profession of faith in God and my commitment to living to God-given standards.

As for herself, every morning on waking she gives thanks to the God she doesn't disbelieve in. Although she can't credit him with saving her, she needs this outlet for her gratitude.

O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.

I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

The will of God prevails.

This nation under God

Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.

Besides that, I believe one thing: there is a Lord God! And this Lord God creates the peoples.

And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

Until we believe that we are as bad as God says we are, we can never believe that He will do for us what He says He will do. Right here is where popular religion breaks down.

Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.

Low views of God destroy the gospel for all who hold them.