Otto Penzler Quotes

Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the warm sun, every taste that touched her tongue told her that there was a God who created all things. Jodie Foster shouldn't therefore be surprised that people are surprised that she's an atheist.

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.

I'm interested in taking hold of the dull truth narrative and finding inside it the transcendence and spirituality and hysteria normally associated with religion.

I believe that God is very real.

I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn't the end and there's something more, but I can't convince the rational part of me that that makes any sense whatsoever.

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Don't be misled by those who claim God doesn't exist, because He does.

I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.

I actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God.

I believe in God and immortality.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.

The unseen world is what emanates from God.

The existence of a single atheist does not disprove the existence of God.

Sometimes, an inability to believe in Satan reflects a larger inability to believe in a spiritual plane at all.

For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.

Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.