Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Try to live as if there were a God

If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.

Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

Conscience is God present in man.

Even now, there are still days so beautiful, I almost believe in God.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs

God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world

There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

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.

The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry

As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods.

Without God, I don't see how folks cope.

The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any crimes or misdemeanors. There is something else here, and there will always be something else - something that the atheists will for ever slur over; they will always be talking of something else.

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love.

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.

I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.

You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.