Quotes About Theism

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.

It is crazy to postulate a trillion (causally unconnected) universes to explain the features of one universe, when postulating one entity (God) will do the job.

Atheist's denial of God's existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist's claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God's existence.

Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

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

If you don't think you're close-minded for not believing in Zeus, then please don't accuse atheists of being close-minded for not believing in your god.

I am an agnostic as to the question of God.

I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.

I'm against anything atheists represent because I believe in God.

I'm always talking to God about whether or not he exists - that's how I know I'm a theist.

Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.

It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

all theisms—Judaism, Christianity and Islam—the difference between the self and God is radical. Pride is the fundamental sin of human beings.

Theism, however, teaches that not only is there a moral universe but there is an absolute standard by which all moral judgments are measured. God himself-his character of goodness (holiness and love)-is the standard.

The Christian philosopher has a perfect right to the point of view and prephilosophical assumptions he brings to philosophic work; the fact that these are not widely shared outside the Christian or theistic community is interesting but fundamentally irrelevant.

The Reformed epistemologist may concur with Calvin in holding that God has implanted in us a natural tendency to see his hand in the world around us; the same cannot be said for the Great Pumpkin, there being no Great Pumpkin and no natural tendency to accept beliefs about the Great Pumpkin.

If the collecting or thinking together had to be done by human thinkers, or any finite thinkers, there wouldn't be nearly enough sets - not nearly as many as we think in fact there are. From a theistic point of view, the natural conclusion is that sets owe their existence to God's thinking things together

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

Science is and should be seen as "completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results.

Whereas theism justified traditional agriculture in the name of God, humanism has justified modern industrial farming in the name of Man.

Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment.... The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and growth of the human mind. The philosophy of theism, if we can call it a philosophy, is static and fixed.