Cornelius Van Til Quotes

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

You know, on the spectrum of religious belief, there is atheism - these are people that don't believe. There's theism - these are the believers and agnostics say it's beyond comprehension that the whole issue of God us unknowable. You might be interested to know that perhaps the greatest mind of the 20th century Einstein, the one time that he actually used one of these appellations was in a letter about five years before he died and he referred to himself as an agnostic.

Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

Next time someone tells me they believe in God, I'll say 'Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?...' If they say 'Just God. I only believe in the one God,' I'll point out that they are nearly as atheistic as me. I don't believe in 2,870 gods, and they don't believe in 2,869.

Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe

For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and have no need of promulgation, so also that of believing in God is primary and self-evident to one who has faith: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is.

I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.

Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith.

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

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.

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.

You believe in God or statistics or the way your narrative differs from other people.

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.

It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.

I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.

Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.

I don't believe anything till I have seen the proof. For anything without proof, I think we should believe the theory that gives us peace. It doesn't matter whether the theory is true or not.

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.

I think spirituality, even if there's no God, even if there's nothing - I consider myself relatively spiritual. I believe in a God. I don't know what it's like, but I do believe in it. It's the only thing that makes any sense. Maybe I'm just looking for order in the chaos. Though, I do believe in Evolution and I do believe in science.