Quotes About God

To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us in such a way that it is by virtue of those processes that we come to have knowledge of him.

The natural theologian does not, typically, offer his arguments in order to convince people of God's existence; and in fact few who accept theistic belief do so because they find such an argument compelling. Instead the typical function of natural theology has been to show that religious belief is rationally acceptable.

Argument is not needed for rational justification. The believer is entirely within his epistemic right in believing, for example, that God has created the world, even if he has no argument at all for that conclusion..

Due to sin, the knowledge of God provided by the sensus divinitatis, prior to faith and regeneration, is both narrowed in scope and partially suppressed. The faculty itself may be diseased and thus partly or wholly disabled. There is such a thing as cognitive disease; there is blindness, deafness, inability to tell right from wrong, insanity; and there are analogues of these conditions with respect to the operation of the sensus divinitatis.

If my belief in other minds is rational, so is my belief in God.

God creates a world containing evil and has a good reason for doing so.

Belief in the existence of God is in the same boat as belief in other minds, the past, and perceptual objects; in each case God has so constructed us that in the right circumstances we form the belief in question.

If we can't think about God, then we can't think about him; and therefore can't make statements about him, including statements to the effect that we can't think about him. The statement that we can't think about God-the statement that God is such that we can't think about him- is obviously a statement about God; if we can't think about God, then we can't say about him what we can't think about him.

God has ...created us with cognitive faculties designed to enable us to achieve true beliefs with respect to a wide variety of propositions - propositions about our immediate environment, about our own interior lives, about the thoughts and experiences of other persons, about our universe at large, about right and wrong, about the whole realm of abstracta - numbers, properties, propositions - ... and about himself.

If you have evidence for every proposition you believe, then you will believe infinitely many propositions. So presumably some propositions can properly be believed and accepted without evidence. Well, why not belief in God? Why is it not entirely acceptable, desirable, right, proper, and rational to accept belief in God without any argument or evidence?

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

La Pascua me satisface tanto como me deprime la Navidad. Un Dios que se convierte en bebé produce consternación. Un pobre tipo que se convierte en Dios es otra cosa

sería fácil ser Dios si el mal no existiera, pero entonces tampoco habría ninguna necesidad de Dios

BaÅŸlang?çta hiçbir ÅŸey yoktu. Bu hiçlik, ne boÅŸtu, ne de muÄŸlak: Kendinden baÅŸka hiçbir ÅŸeyle adland?r?lamazd?. Tanr? bunun iyi olduÄŸunu gördü. Dünyada hiçbir ÅŸeyi boÅŸuna yaratmazd?. Hiçlik ona uygun olmaktan ziyade onun için iyiydi: Onu dolduruyordu

Les voies qui mènent à Dieu sont impénétrables. Plus impénétrables encore sont celles qui mènent au succès. Il y eut, suite à cet incident, une véritable ruée sur les oeuvres de Prétextat Tach. Dix ans plus tard, il était un classique. Fin du roman.

Acaso no basta con tener en la boca un chocolate del bueno no sólo para creer en Dios sino también para sentirse en su presencia? Dios no es el chocolate, es el reencuentro entre el chocolate y un paladar capaz de apreciarlo

Et tout ceci prouvait au plus haut point que Dieu était Dieu. Et cette évidence n'avait aucune importance, car Dieu se fichait éperdument d'être Dieu.

Si amas a Dios, no tendrás miedo de nada ni de nadie, porque nada puedes perder y todas las fuerzas del cosmos, serían impotentes para quitarte tu heredad.

But in my weakness, my God is strong. When I was reckless, His reckless love chased me down and brought healing that I never experienced.

God's grace is at its best in weakness, so we need never fear our weakness. In fact, these weaknesses will determine in what way we shall glorify God for all eternity.

If you don't have God in your life, you have to fill up on something. And you usually reach for the four great substitutes, the classical addictions: wealth, pleasure, power, and honor. So you try to fill yourself up.

In terms of the Japanese royal family, they were considered the direct descendants of a god. They are regarded as all-powerful and possessors of unimaginable wealth, and yet they are, more often than not, literally prisoners of tradition.

Knowing what God has in store for me - it gives me hope. I kind of feel like God's warrior, pretty much. God's weapon.

I love my life as a missionary, keeping myself on the front lines. The image in my mind is that God, my general, stands at the door when I go out every morning; and, knowing what the war is like, day after day he gives me his most powerful weapon: his Spirit. For this I am grateful.