Christopher Hitchens Quotes

Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever.

The only way to show a true respect for God is to act morally while ignoring God’s existence.

I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name.

God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation, and I believe God isn't done with America yet.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

The only points in which I differ from all ecclesiastical teaching is that I do not believe that any man ever saw or talked with God, I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or told the historians what they say he did about woman, for all the religions on the face of the earth degrade her, and so long as woman accepts the position that they assign her, her emancipation is impossible.

I've always said that God will somehow enlighten me.

If you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer?

It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word of God!

The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

When you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it fulfilled the same day or soon; (i.e.) those things that were presented unto your minds by the Spirit of God, will come to pass; and thus by learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, you may grow into the principle of revelation, until you become perfect in Christ Jesus.

The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.

Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only human and useless for salvation.

If you own just one Bible, you are abundantly blessed. 1/3rd of the world does not have access to even one.

The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

When it began, Christianity was regarded as a system entirely beyond the range and scope of human reason; it was impious to question; it was impious to examine; it was impious to discriminate. On the other hand, it was visibly instinct with the supernatural. Miracles of every order and degree of magnitude were flashing forth incessantly from all its parts.

The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.

The Holy Scriptures lead us to God and open the path to the knowledge of God.

T is the will that makes the action good or ill.

We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.

It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.

God's goal is not to get what you want; it is to get you what you need.

This whole religion revolves around knowing the truth and acting by it, and action must be accompanied by patience.