Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

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

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.

I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consistent with God's existence as it is in opposition to God's existence.

The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker!

People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.

Every worldview I chose, it seemed, edged me toward belief.

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

In other words, I'd say the whole story of Bob Dylan is one man's search for God. The turns and the steps he takes to find God are his business. I think he went to a study group at the Vineyard, and it created a lot of excitement.

When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?

Since I came at 'Godot' from a God-based frame of mind, it didn't strike me as absurdist. It struck me as characters waiting for proof of God's existence.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.

When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself.

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.

I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.

I do have faith. I don't have faith that a God exists, nor do I have faith that one does not; I have absolute faith that I do not know, cannot know, am only human, am an infinitesimal creature packed onto a cramped planet crowded with seven billion bodies, and as many yearning hearts, and as many questioning minds.

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Clearly, the Scripture tells us that we lack the capacity to grasp God's infinite mind or the way He intervenes in our lives. How arrogant of us to think otherwise! Trying to analyze His omnipotence is like an amoeba attempting to comprehend the behavior of man.

I have no doubt, if people are really seeking the big questions, it will lead them to the Lord.

In terms of my personal spirituality and everything else, it's ever-evolving. I have a desire to want more out of the universe. But the older I get, the further I get from any specifics about that.

The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.

If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately.

I was always seeking truth from childhood. And I identified truth with many things, with science, with politics, with art, and I kept coming back to the thought that without God I can't get to what I'm looking for.