Edith Schaeffer Quotes

What are the chances there is a God, really?

As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.

Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age.

If you can define what God is, I can tell you whether I believe in it.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fully understand. If someone wants to place the word 'God' on those collections of words, it's OK with me.

I definitely believe in God.

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.

I believe God did intend, in giving us intelligence, to give us the opportunity to investigate and appreciate the wonders of His creation. He is not threatened by our scientific adventures.

If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all …. whether there exists a God or not ... men's moral duties will always be the same so long as they possess their own nature

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

If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.

Did God create man, or did man create God? Either way, the decision needs to be reviewed.

God is best known in not knowing him.

I believe in a kind of God. I think all scientists, in a way, believe in a certain God, in a certain order of nature.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

In the Einstein way, I can't believe in a universe that doesn't have some sort of prime mover, identical with all of created nature. I have a whole lot of a harder time with supposing the fine print of the Torah was a direct revelation.

Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.

God's advice trumps Oprah's every time.

You just don't get funding to go out and find God. Even if you did, you'd have to first define what you mean by 'God.'

I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension.

What is the origin of God?

The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.

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.