John Calvin Quotes

I don't believe in God.

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

I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance! just doesn't cut it….

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.

For many people, God is a frightening idea. Asking God for help doesn't seem very comforting if we think of Him as something outside ourselves, or capricious, or judgmental. But God is love and He dwells within us. We are created in His image, or mind, which means that we are extensions of His love, or Sons and Daughters of God.

To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.

Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.

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?

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.

Theology is the science of the divine lie.

If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.

Worshiping someone means...placing that person outside of our world. We are not worshiping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with Creation.

God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.

Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.

Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

Just because I don't understand god's plans does not mean that he is not with me.

Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism.

The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty known to man only in perverted and insane temperaments, could not be held for a moment. For pure blasphemy, it made pure atheism a comfort.

God only acts and is, in existing beings or men.

God is not pleased by blood – and not acting reasonably is contrary to God's nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the body. Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well and to reason properly, without violence and threats... To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death.

A voice behind me asked, "Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now?" and a voice within me answered: "Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows."

If we believe not with faith divine and supernatural, we believe not at all.

An atheist's laugh 's a poor exchange For Deity offended!

Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God.

The most important thing ... is the name of the Lord. The name of the Lord will be glorified. I want to let the people know that there is a God who can raise people from nothing into something. And that's me. I came from nothing into something.