Lemuel K. Washburn Quotes

I think, if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.

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

God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.

Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist.

It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder.

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal His character and His power as Creator.

If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, why should we have doubts concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses?

When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.

As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

I know God is real.

There are dozens of references to God in the Scriptures for every one to the figure of Satan. This reflects a sometimes forgotten theological truth that the devil is by no means God's counterpart. He is a creature, not the Creator.