Sam Simon Quotes

I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles.

It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real.

It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.

They say miracles are past.

In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual'; I thought it was all crap.

I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

I don't need faith.

Magic happens, see. It's just like on those bumper stickers, the ones that say, 'Miracles Happen', or 'Jesus Happens'. I never really took those too seriously. I mean, they're bumper stickers. Yeah, yeah, I know what you're thinking. Miracles? Right. Jesus? Maybe. But magic?

I believe in divine intervention.

Faith requires a leap; otherwise, it just becomes science.

I believe in God, and I believe in miracles, and I believe that everything is possible.

To me, these biblical stories are just so many fish stories, and I'm not specifically referring to Jonah and the whale. I need indisputable proof of anything I'm asked to believe.

If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe.

I wouldn't like to be a non-believer in anything.

I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.

I believe in possibility, but I'm not sure I believe in demons.

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.