Cornelius Van Til Quotes

Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.

Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

Atheism is the last word of theism.

As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it became difficult for me to sustain the belief structure in the supernatural.

I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been?

I have to recognize that I am agnostic.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.

By night an atheist half believes in a God.

When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

I'm an agnosto-theist.

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

Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.

I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.

I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.

Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God.

For me, the existence of nonexistence of God is a nonissue.

As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods.

I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.

The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god; it may be said that there is no reason to think that there is one.

I don’t believe in God as you imagine Him to be, but I believe in many things that you could never even dream of.

Tell me," said the atheist , "Is there a God really?" Said the master, "If you want me to be perfectly honest with you, I will not answer." Later the disciples demanded to know why he had not answered. "Because the question is unanswerable," said the Master. "So you are an atheist?" "Certainly not. The atheist makes the mistake of denying that of which nothing may be said... and the theist makes the mistake of affirming it.

Whoever invented God is an idiot. God is absolutely man's worst invention.

Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.