Shane Harper Quotes

'Why are we here?' 'What is our purpose? 'Is there an afterlife?' 'Is there a God?' 'Is it all about science?' Those are big questions, and usually, TV is a little scared to go there.

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

Religion and science look at reality differently.

Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God.

There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.

I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

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.

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.

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.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

The Church should not be confused with religion.

I've always been interested in what passes for what we call religion, what other cultures call their spiritual life.

I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.

I'm not religious. I'm not an atheist. Would I say I'm an agnostic? Possibly. But I would say the collective unconscious is something I'm much more interested in.

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.