Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.

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 strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.

If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.

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

Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs

God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.

I'd rather not live like there isn't a God Then die and find out there really is Think about it

I have a certainty about eternity that is a wonderful thing, and I thank God for giving me that certainty. I do not fear death. I may fear a little bit about the process, but not death itself, because I think the moment that my spirit leaves this body, I will be in the presence of the Lord.

...If there’s a God, there are plenty of people who know where he is.” I shrugged, still watching the sky. ... “I just want to know that he’s there, so that I can die knowing there’s going to be someone I can punch in the mouth on the other end.

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.

For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.

The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities impressed with it.

if you put your trust in God, you’ll be all right in the end.

But his Lordship [tells]us that God is wholly here, and wholly there, and wholly every where; because he has no parts. I cannot comprehend nor conceive this. For methinks it implies also that the whole world is also in the whole God, and in every part of God. Norcan I find anything of this in the Scripture. If I could find it there, I could believe it; and if I could find it in the public doctrine of the Church, I could easily abstain from contradicting it.

The whole of creation, with all of its laws, is a revelation of God.

To say God spake or appeared as he is in his own nature, is to deny his Infiniteness, Invisibility, Incomprehensibility.

I think there's a God and I know it's not me. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life.

I believe in God, and I'm a Christian.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion.

We do not see God, but everywhere we see something divine; first and most typically in the center of a reasonable man, in the depth of a living human product. You can directly feel and think nature, the universe, but not the Godhead. Only the man among men can poetize and think divinely and live with religion.