Billy Graham Quotes

Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.

Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration.

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.

Back when the natural sciences, philosophy, and theology were one great intellectual hodgepodge, proving the existence of God was a relatively commonplace exercise. To the modern mind, however, science and religion talk past each other.

The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.

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.

If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.

Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.

Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.

The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves.

The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something [God] exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. For if God does not exist it would of course be impossible to prove it, and if he does exist it would be folly to attempt it.

You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children

If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.

Not being able to understand God is frustrating, but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable to comprehending.

Generally speaking, anything that the human mind can conceive can ultimately be produced.

Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, "What comes into your mind when you think about God?" we might predict with certainty the future of that man.

The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a cook.

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind

Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.

Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.

And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.

God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.