George Steiner Quotes

Do freshman philosophy classes nowadays debate updated versions of the age-old questions? Like, how could a merciful God allow AIDS, childhood cancers, tsunamis and Dick Cheney?

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

This actual question of 'Why does God allow war?' is not considered or raised as such in the Bible at all.

Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a god or gods should pose no threat to you.

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

I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.

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

Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries.

How could a just God permit great misery? The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb: "Bondye konn bay, men li pa konn separe," in literal translation, "God gives but doesn't share." This meant... God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us.

Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

'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.

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

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

I don't claim to know what it means to say that we are made in the image of God, but I profoundly and instinctively believe it and all that it implies.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

World War II proves there's no God.

Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist.

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

I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consistent with God's existence as it is in opposition to God's existence.

'Boxers' was more time consuming simply because it was longer, but 'Saints' was definitely harder. I think it's just hard to talk about faith in general.

I've always been interested in apologetics, the topic of different world views and, 'Why are we here?' and 'Where are we going?' I grew up in the church, and sometimes kids who grew up in a church can be sheltered and can't engage with people with different world views.