David Berman Quotes

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

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

I have never doubted. I have had a firm belief in God and the church.

There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.

Science ignores the spiritual realm because it is not amenable to scientific analysis. As importantly, the predictive success of Newtonian theory, emphasizing the primacy of a physical Universe, made the existence of spirit and God an extraneous hypothesis that offered no explanatory principles needed by science.

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.

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.

Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn't understand what religion is. It is a language to describe the experience of human nature, so for as long as people struggle to describe what it means to be alive, it will be a ready-made language to express those feelings.

Oh, I don't talk about God.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

You subtract Christianity from Huston Smith, and there is no Huston Smith left.

If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right.

Mark this, you that despise and oppose the Message of the Lord God that he sends by Women; What had become of the Redemption of the whole Body of Mankind, if they had not cause to believe the Message that the Lord Jesus sent by these Women

We grew up going to church, and I believe in God. I don't know that I have the ability to define what or who or how God is. You know, I think that religion kind of messes people up in that regard. That's just my own personal philosophy.

I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached.

I have a strong belief in God.

I don't think I have any particular problem with God.

Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors - science, capitalism, consumerism.