Thomas Gray Quotes

The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any crimes or misdemeanors. There is something else here, and there will always be something else - something that the atheists will for ever slur over; they will always be talking of something else.

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.

You can understand why I'm a believer. I have seen miracles.

Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience.

I used to be an atheist, but I've chilled out a bit on that.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.

Revealed religion had no weight with me.

I'm not observant, personally, but if I ever see a priest resurrect the dead before my eyes I promise to revisit my atheism.

Tony's [Blair] convinced I'm going to find God. I do have spiritual moments, but I don't think it's God.

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.

We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

My life was changed in one breath from God.

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.