Jon Krakauer Quotes

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.

I don't see any sign of God in this world, in the place where we live and things we know. It can all be explained to my mind perfectly satisfactorily without God. But in the great darkness beyond this little spark of light where I live, of course there may be all kinds of things. There may be a god. So I'm really an agnostic.

Do I know there is a God? Some days I don't.

I believe there's a God but I'm not too sure of his relevance.

I don't know whether God exists or not. ... Some forms of atheism are arrogant and ignorant and should be rejected, but agnosticism—to admit that we don't know and to search—is all right. ... When I look at what I call the gift of life, I feel a gratitude which is in tune with some religious ideas of God. However, the moment I even speak of it, I am embarrassed that I may do something wrong to God in talking about God.

Is there a God? There is, but we don't know where. Or who. And, indeed, why.

Question boldly even the existence of God.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.

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

My thoughts about God are vague and abstract. My connection with the energy of the universe is shaky.

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.

As Kierkegaard was the first to suggest, we can never know where our prayers are likely to go nor from whom the answers will come. When we think we are nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God.

[I'm] almost positive there is no God.

O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.

When we don't hear anything from God we just don't know exactly what He is planning and we come to different conclusions that maybe He has forgotten me, maybe He doesn't hear my prayers, maybe I'm not good enough.

As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my mind there is no evidence that God exists - that this world is governed by a being of infinite goodness, wisdom and power, but I do not pretend to know.

I'd rather not live like there isn't a God Then die and find out there really is Think about it

I am an agnostic as to the question of God.

What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?

God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.

What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.