Scarlett Thomas Quotes

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.

Revealed religion had no weight with me.

Certainly, I find that 'Mere Christianity' speaks to me. So why am I still an agnostic? Beats me.

Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

Our struggle is--isn't it?--to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a Listener at all. For as the situation grows more and more desperate, the grisly fears intrude. Are we only talking to ourselves in an empty universe? The silence is often so emphatic. And we have prayed so much already

If you subscribe to the notion of God as being separate from you, than you will always be lost, because you can't even trust in your own untrustworthiness.

Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God.

There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.

Question boldly even the existence of God.

I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war.

The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing.

Jesus watches from the wall, But his face is cold as stone, And if he loves me As she tells me Why do I feel so all alone?

When you read the Bible, it's as though it reads you.

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was something wrong with your belief, and you must strive to understand better that which you call God.

God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta.

There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.

Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to my own image as they're so fond of saying. Please give me the necessary grace, oh Lord, and please don't let it be as hard to get as Kafka made it.

I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.

The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music.

we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.

When he turned on the tape-transport once more, Arctor was saying, "-- as near as I can figure out, God is dead." Luckman answered, "I didn't know He was sick.

Or maybe I’d lost my soul already. I doubted God let someone like me keep any gift from him. It was highly likely I’d been born without one.