Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don't know about him, but because of what we do know about him.

God is best known in not knowing him.

The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fully understand. If someone wants to place the word 'God' on those collections of words, it's OK with me.

The more I learn about God, the more aware I become of what I don’t know about him.

The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language fails. And if we do definitively put God into words, we have at that very moment made God something God is not.

God' is always the equivalent of 'I do not know.

A way of life which excludes the realm of the unknown and the mysterious is simply not in harmony with life itself.

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.

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

A comprehended god is no god.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

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

God is to me the Great Unknown. I believe in Him, but I find Him not.

Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.

I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.

This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This has put me at odds with many other believers I know who seem to need explanations for everything.

I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.

My feeling, of course, is that it's ludicrous to try to prove God's existence by science. God has nothing to do with science. God has all to do with soul, and who can explain that?

If, as many people believe, there is a God, and that God made us in his own image, then of course we are distinct from nature, just as He is.

I'm always trying to figure out what God is and why matter exists and whether it contains spirit or not.

I don't believe in a particular god, but I believe in the unknown. I believe that there's something bigger than us.

We live in an age of technology and science that demands proof, and yet we desire mystery. But when God gives us mystery, we seek to destroy it by gross indifference or childish reasoning.

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?