N. T. Wright Quotes

Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him; but Aristotle thought God through logically, and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.

Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration.

Is there a God? There is, but we don't know where. Or who. And, indeed, why.

Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical literature. But theology, the study of gods, the study of what gods do, presupposes that gods exist. The only kind of theology that I take account of are those theological arguments that actually argue for the existence of God.

Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.

Why do we need to justify God's existence? He exists. We need to justify our own existence.

In a way, I think religion is to be admired for asking the right questions. I just think it's got the wrong answers.

Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.

The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.

It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.

I don't know whether God exists or not. ... Some forms of atheism are arrogant and ignorant and should be rejected, but agnosticism—to admit that we don't know and to search—is all right. ... When I look at what I call the gift of life, I feel a gratitude which is in tune with some religious ideas of God. However, the moment I even speak of it, I am embarrassed that I may do something wrong to God in talking about God.

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.

And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.

God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.

There must be a God, because I don't know how things work.

If there is a God, I want to see him. I don't want to just hear some holy roller shouting about him.

Death is the inventor of God.

I cannot believe in God when there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a supreme being and creator.

If God can be fully proved by the human mind, then He is no greater than the mind that proves Him.

Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?

I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him I would be a liar.

Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.

And you know what? If there is a God, and it's that same God who's so eager to have temples built in honor of his greatness, and wars fought over him, and people dropping to their knees telling him what a wonderful, magnificent being he is? If this all-powerful, all-knowing creature for some reason just can't get by without my worship? Then let him give me some proof. Or at least get over himself if I decide to go out and get some.

If God exists, there's no way he's French