Dean Edell Quotes

The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

If you believe in god, it's much more fantastic to believe that he created this universe billions of years ago and set in motion this long train of activities that eventually resulted in us. I think that's so much more satisfying, more thrilling, than the idea that it was all done in seven days.

I believe the universe created us - we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I'm religious.

I'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people.

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

Many have told me through the years: 'I think I'll take my chances without Jesus.' And I always come back and say, 'So what chance is that?'

Besides that, I believe one thing: there is a Lord God! And this Lord God creates the peoples.

There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is a higher power involved in this.

Whoever invented God is an idiot. God is absolutely man's worst invention.

I am religious in the sense that I believe in God and I believe that there is an abiding logical spirit that controls what goes on to a certain extent.

You know, on the spectrum of religious belief, there is atheism - these are people that don't believe. There's theism - these are the believers and agnostics say it's beyond comprehension that the whole issue of God us unknowable. You might be interested to know that perhaps the greatest mind of the 20th century Einstein, the one time that he actually used one of these appellations was in a letter about five years before he died and he referred to himself as an agnostic.

When people say do you believe in God? what do they mean by it? Do I believe in some spiritual force in the world? In a way, yes. People have thoughts, emotions. If you want to call that a spiritual force, okay. But unless there's some clarification of what we're supposed to believe in or disbelieve in, I can't answer.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

You cannot find, I believe, a case in the Bible where a man is converted without God's calling in some human agency--using some human instrument.

Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.

Now. Maybe you think it is arrogant or self centered, or ridiculous for me to believe that God bothered to wiggle a cheap bolt out of my new used car because he or she needed to keep me away for a few days until just the moment when my old friend most needed me to help her mother move into whatever comes next. Maybe nothing conscious helped to stall me so that I would be there when I could be most useful. Or maybe it did. I’ll never know for sure. And anyway, it doesn’t really matter.

Shoulders are from God and burdens too.

I didn't know what we would be selling in the year 2000 but whatever it was we would be selling the most of it.

Religion?" Mr Kumar grinned broadly. "I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.

To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such instances men seize, and call them providences. It is well that they can; but it would be gloriously better if they could believe that the whole matter is one grand providence.

I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all and that physics was more interesting anyway. The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that’s all.

It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window.

We speak, but it is God who teaches.

We're going to do our part and we'll win because we're on God's side.