Samuel Beckett Quotes

A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.

I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.

Of course God enjoys a good prank as much as the next infallible deity.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

For me, God is cold.

Somebody should tell Jerry Falwell that God is an Independent . . . he's not rich enough to be a Republican.

Everybody wants to go to heaven. They just don't want God to be there when they get there.

I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'" -

Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.

I believe it's my pastoral duty to convert friends to atheism.

I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us?

Down deep in His heart God is a comedian who loves to make us laugh.

If Jesus doesn't have a sense of humor, I am in huge trouble.

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Just as many who were brought up to think of God as a bearded old gentleman sitting on a cloud decided that when they stopped believing in such a being they had therefore stopped believing in God, so many who were taught to think of hell as a literal underground location full of worms and fire...decided that when they stopped believing in that, so they stopped believing in hell. The first group decided that because they couldn't believe in childish images of God, they must be atheists. The second decided that because they couldn't believe in childish images of hell, they must be universalists.

He [God] just seems so man-made to me. There are so many theories, and not everyone can be right. It's human nature to need a religious crutch, and I don't begrudge anyone that. I just don't need one.

Man is a marvelous curiosity...he thinks he is the Creator's pet...he even believes the Creator loves him; has passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks he listens. Isn't it a quaint idea.

However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud, in that pure empyrean where God dwells, to irradiate every darkness of this world; light enough to clear every difficult question, remove every ground of obscurity, conquer every atheistic suspicion, silence every hard judgment, light enough to satisfy, nay, to ravish the mind forever.

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in which category has he placed you?

The idea of God grew side by side with the idea of materialism.

Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth, John names thee Light, the Book of Kings names thee Lord, Exodus names thee Providence, Leviticus Sanctity, Esdras Justice, creation names thee God, man names thee Father; but Solomon names thee Compassion, which is the most beautiful of all thy names.

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.