R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

But time is yet another of God's creations, and as such, it has a life of its own.

I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

The idea of God as a fatherly figure who looks down on us and worries about how we're doing or takes sides when we have fights - it's more irritating than Santa Claus. The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.

I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.

No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.

My belief in God is that God wants you. God wants you to believe in him, or it, whatever you would call it.

I'm one of the few people I know who believes in God.

We, like the people of Israel, would like to think we get to name God. By naming God, we hope to get the kind of god we need; that is, a god after our own likeness.

To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.

Action gives power. Entire harmony pervades the universe of God. All the heavenly beings are in constant activity; and the Lord Jesus, in His life work, has given an example for every one.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

I think God destined that I play. I think it's all in the books already.

It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity.

It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.

I'm very interested in Darwinism and how that affects us on a day-to-day level. But I also have a deep interest in theology and the spiritual.

I knew at a very young age that I didn't really buy the whole God gamut.

According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.

The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.