Marcus Brigstocke Quotes

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

I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.

I'm an agnosto-theist.

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.

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.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

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

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

God does not believe in our God.

I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.

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.

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there's the reality: there's no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.

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

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

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

You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know.

There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

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.

I will never come around to the idea of an anthropomorphic God. I'm also uncomfortable with the word 'God'... I'm agnostic about the answer and I'm agnostic about the question.

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