John Donne Quotes

I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience.

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.

You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.

Don't be misled by those who claim God doesn't exist, because He does.

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.

When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.

I don't believe in God.

People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

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

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.

The existence of a single atheist does not disprove the existence of God.

What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic.

Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the warm sun, every taste that touched her tongue told her that there was a God who created all things. Jodie Foster shouldn't therefore be surprised that people are surprised that she's an atheist.