Quotes on Proof Of God

The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.

Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?