Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

I still can't decide which is silliest; a person believing in a God who 'isn't there,' or a person offended by a God whom he doesn't believe exists.

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

I pray there's a God...I know there's an Oprah.

When people say do you believe in God? what do they mean by it? Do I believe in some spiritual force in the world? In a way, yes. People have thoughts, emotions. If you want to call that a spiritual force, okay. But unless there's some clarification of what we're supposed to believe in or disbelieve in, I can't answer.

I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church.

Basically, it comes down to this: do you believe in God, or don't you believe in God.

I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.

I see myself as a spiritual person, but I don't think anyone should claim proof of a god. No one can prove it. That's why I don't claim to know whether there are one, many or no gods.

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.

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.

You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.

Saying that you don't believe in magic but do believe in god is a bit like saying you don't have sex with dogs, except labradors.

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.

The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion. According to Renan, "The day after that on which the world should no longer believe in God, atheists would be the wretchedest of all men."

The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.

I'm an agnosto-theist. I cross myself on airplanes. I pray when I'm sick. When you're sick I'll keep you in my thoughts; when I'm sick, I'm entreating a higher power.

It never really occurred to me to believe in God.

The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.

It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God.

I don't believe in an interventionist God

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?

In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.