Tertullian Quotes

It is certain because it is impossible.

Faith prefers the absurd to the plausible.

Paradoxes are the only truths.

In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous.

… like looking for an atheist in heaven

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.

Unbelief is a belief.

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!

It is to believed because it is absurd.

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.