Jane Wagner Quotes

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

Do I know there is a God? Some days I don't.

If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

I don't see any sign of God in this world, in the place where we live and things we know. It can all be explained to my mind perfectly satisfactorily without God. But in the great darkness beyond this little spark of light where I live, of course there may be all kinds of things. There may be a god. So I'm really an agnostic.

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.

Atheists who keep asking for evidence of God's existence are like a fish in the ocean wanting evidence of water.

My husband is stricken with dementia, and it's a trick of his condition that events and people from his past are more real to him than what happened five minutes ago.

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.

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

I am, therefore there is a God.

I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere.

There's a moment for everybody when you look at that picture of Jesus in the church and think, 'This doesn't totally make sense.' If God made everything, then who made God? We have no idea.

I think there will always be a possibility that God doesn't exist because He is infinitude and into that infinitude must come that possibility.

Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

Does God exist? Well, I would say, 'not yet'.

Julie Christie was absolutely amazing in Away From Her. Brilliant movie. It was the moving story of a woman who forgets her own husband. Hillary Clinton calls it the feel good movie of the year.

What I meant by 'we would know the mind of God' is, we would know everything that God would know, if there were a God. Which there isn't. I'm an atheist.

The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.

No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.

But never in the four hundred years now since I was born, have I ever seen anything to make me doubt whether God exists in some form or the other. Not even the reflection in the mirror.

If it is to be established that there is a God, then we have to have good grounds for believing that this is indeed so. Until and unless some such grounds are produced we have literally no reason at all for believing; and in that situation the only reasonable posture must be that of either the negative atheist or the agnostic. So the onus of proof has to rest on the proposition of theism.