Ang Lee Quotes

I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds.

'Why are we here?' 'What is our purpose? 'Is there an afterlife?' 'Is there a God?' 'Is it all about science?' Those are big questions, and usually, TV is a little scared to go there.

I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?

I believe that God made this wonderful universe and all that exists.

I firmly believe that there is a God. I firmly believe that there is a Heaven. And I firmly believe that if you go there, it's gonna be great.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

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

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

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

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

Well, I can't figure out God.

Science is very good at answering the 'how' questions. 'How did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate in addressing the 'why' questions. 'Why is there a universe at all?' These are the meaning questions, which many people think religion is particularly good at dealing with.

Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

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

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

If, as many people believe, there is a God, and that God made us in his own image, then of course we are distinct from nature, just as He is.

I'm always trying to figure out what God is and why matter exists and whether it contains spirit or not.

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.

My future is about God.

One of the things that doesn't come up as much as it should, especially in literary fiction, is this idea of faith and God... I feel like those are things that should be wrestled with... because they are such an integral part of our community on every level.

Our English language really says if you're not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheist. What I'm trying to do is develop a language that will enable us to talk about God beyond the, what I think, are sterile categories of theism and atheism.

I think, if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.

Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.