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.
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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.
God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.
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.
I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.
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.
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'
There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.
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.
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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?
I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world.
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