Jules Renard Quotes

I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.

To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God.

I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.

Nobody really knows if there's a God - not Oprah, not Joel Osteen, not the Pope. Nobody has touched or felt or conversed with God. They say they have, but let's get real. I think that is what keeps me from coming out as an atheist. I think to myself, even the atheists don't know that there isn't a God. Nobody knows anything.

I consider myself a religious person, but when it comes to God and faith, I don't know. I guess that means I'm agnostic.

Question boldly even the existence of God.

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.

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

What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.

When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

I'm an agnosto-theist.

I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.

I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one.

I, for one, can't be sure at all there is a God.

It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.

If God exists, what objection can he have to saying so?

A deist is someone who has not lived long enough to be an atheist.

You seem much too intelligent to believe in God.

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

I don't see any god up here.

Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?