Emily Dickinson Quotes

I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.

We can thank God for everything good, and all the rest we don't comprehend yet.

There always seemed to be a place for God and, to me, it seemed like God was a place in the unknown side of the ledger.

Are you telling me you think Ranger's a superhero?' Think about it. We don't know where he lives. We don't know anything about him.' Superheroes are make-believe.' Oh yeah?' Lula said. 'What about God?

The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.

I acknowledge that I do not understand the processes of creation, but I accept the fact of it.

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

Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer.

I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.

God is to me the Great Unknown. I believe in Him, but I find Him not.

Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God

I don't believe in a particular god, but I believe in the unknown. I believe that there's something bigger than us.

Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.

For me, the massiveness of what I don't know is one way I experience God. It creates in me a feeling of humility and a sense of gratitude.

I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?

There’s no such thing as trust unless you have unanswered questions in your life. If you know everything, theres nothing to trust God for.

I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t. It’s the great mystery. (Steve Jobs)

I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.

To me, the right approach is to say we are profoundly ignorant of these matters. We need to work on them. But to suddenly say the answer is God - it's that that seems to me to close off the discussion.

The more I learn about God, the more aware I become of what I don’t know about him.

It never really occurred to me to believe in God.

Let us not have a computer psychology that makes us think we know it all. All answers on computers - but no surprises. The challenge of love. God reveals himself through surprises.

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods.