Samuel Beckett Quotes

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

They which divide in Religion, divide in God; they who divide in him, divide beyond Genus Generalissimum, where there is no reconciliation, without atonement -- that is, without uniting in him, who is One, and in his Truth, which is also one.

Ye moon and stars, bear witness to the truth.

I am not surprised that men who put their trust in an atom should fail in their slightest attempts to plumb truth, that with such limited vision they cannot see beyond the sky and the stars to God Himself; that since they cannot discern the superiority of what is spiritual or the dignity of man's soul, they are even more unaware how hard it is to satisfy, how the whole earth is unworthy of it, how urgently it needs a supremely perfect being, who is God, and how indispensable to it is a religion which will lead it towards God and provide a sure pledge of Him.

I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion.

The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.

I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.

A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God.

If God does not save men by truth, he certainly will not save them by lies. And if the old gospel is not competent to work a revival, then we will do without the revival.

If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to the God who is their true Author.

God is bigger than the Christian faith.

I'm a Christian now. The things that drove me crazy growing up was how everyone works at fault-finding with different religions. The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snow boarding and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away.

So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting question?' Mr. Chiba: 'The story with animals.' Mr. Okamoto: 'Yes. The story with animals is the better story.' Pi Patel: 'Thank you. And so it goes with God.

Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.

We don’t need self-confidence we need God-confidence

Religion doesn't start with a set of laws or rules and it doesn't start with a set of ideas. It starts with an encounter, with the living God and in our case, Christ risen from the dead. In that encounter you meet someone you can trust. That's faith: trust in truth.

I believe in God big time and I'm proud to say I believe in God.

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.

Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.