Donald Knuth Quotes

I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.

I want to tell everybody that there is really a living God.

No one will presumably ever be able to prove or disprove such fundamental religious principles as the existence of God.

You may be ignorant of His presence at the time, but that doesn't mean He doesn't exist. If you look, you will find that He was there all along. You can know that God exists.

I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.

Faith is as essential to the spiritual realm as oxygen is to the natural realm.

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

I'm not a religious person. I'm Catholic, so I consider myself more of a spiritual person. I believe in God.

I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

Faith is personal if it's to be real.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

Basically, it comes down to this: do you believe in God, or don't you believe in God.

I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him.

Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.

I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn't the end and there's something more, but I can't convince the rational part of me that that makes any sense whatsoever.

There's something cool, even on a philosophical level, about understanding the bigger picture and exploring faith, if you will, in a very real way. The more you delve into it and give into it, you just have to have faith. The more you invest in faith, wherever it takes you, some of those jagged edges become less sharp.

I'm a deeply spiritual person, and I strongly believe that God is watching over me!

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?