Salman Rushdie Quotes

What is the difference between the Christian God, and the gods of the other religions?" He simply, yet profoundly answered, "The main difference is this: The God of Christianity exists.

How do I define God? I don't.... People who find such conceptions important for themselves have every right to frame them as they like. Personally, I don't.

I'm thinking of a God very different from the God of the Christian and far and away from the God of Islam, because both are depicted as omnipotent Oriental despots, cosmic Saddam Husseins.

If there is no God, then I am God.

Whoever invented God is an idiot. God is absolutely man's worst invention.

Who is this god person anyway?

I will never come around to the idea of an anthropomorphic God. I'm also uncomfortable with the word 'God'... I'm agnostic about the answer and I'm agnostic about the question.

I believe there's a God but I'm not too sure of his relevance.

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

God is dead and I am his replacement.

Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?

Your God is altogether too human.

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind

There is a God. God exists.

If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

God is Man's greatest invention

God has many names, though He is only one Being.

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

That's my feeling - that real God and religion are two different things and that religion is trying to obscure what God really is.

I know not what you mean by God; the word God is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation.

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

God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world

There is a God, and his name is Aristophanes.

Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance.