Scott Glenn Quotes

The whole question of God and what God is, and whether it's a blond guy with a beard, I don't know... I don't know that. Do I believe that there's something greater at work than the sum of humanity? Yeah, I think so.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.

God doesn't know things. He is things.

What is the origin of God?

I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.

Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

However you define God, and whether you believe in God or not, the world we live in has been shaped by the universal human conviction that there is more to life than life itself; that there is a 'god' shaped hole at the centre of our universe.

By God I understand a being absolutely infinite, that is, a substance consisting of an infinity of attributes, of which each one expresses an eternal and infinite essence.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.

God is not a dead equation!

Everyone's definition of what God means can vary. But music is something that really takes you to that - 'sublime' is a great word. That thing that is greater than we are. The beauty, the magic of the universe.

You just don't get funding to go out and find God. Even if you did, you'd have to first define what you mean by 'God.'

There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.

If you can define what God is, I can tell you whether I believe in it.

Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.

Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is!

I've always believed in a higher power. You can call it God, you can call it Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Allah, I don't care. I really believe we are all a part of God.

I definitely believe in God.

It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and to call them God. We only thus create an ideal figure, a purified, ennobled, 'magnified' Man.