Muriel Spark Quotes

Is Life itself a dream, I wonder?

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

What if the worst is true? What if there's no God, and you only go around once, and that's it? Don't you want to be a part of the experience? You know, what the hell? It's not all a drag, and I'm thinking to myself: Geez! I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I'm never gonna get and just enjoy it while it lasts. And, you know, after-who knows? Maybe there is something, nobody really knows. I know that maybe is a very slim reed to hang your whole life on, but that's the best we have.

If God to you is where science has yet to tread, then God is an ever-receding pocket.

We don't even know if we're in this room. We could be in a turtle's dream in outer space.

The Oresteia, King Lear, Dostoevsky's 'The Devils' no less than the art of Giotto or the 'Passions' of Bach, inquire into, dramatize, the relations of man and woman to the existence of the gods or of God.

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

'Why are we here?' 'What is our purpose? 'Is there an afterlife?' 'Is there a God?' 'Is it all about science?' Those are big questions, and usually, TV is a little scared to go there.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.

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

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Without faith that there's a world beyond the one we live in, I don't see how it's possible to get rid of angst.

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

Since I came at 'Godot' from a God-based frame of mind, it didn't strike me as absurdist. It struck me as characters waiting for proof of God's existence.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

I've always been interested in apologetics, the topic of different world views and, 'Why are we here?' and 'Where are we going?' I grew up in the church, and sometimes kids who grew up in a church can be sheltered and can't engage with people with different world views.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of 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.

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

I'm always trying to figure out what God is and why matter exists and whether it contains spirit or not.