Mikhail Bakunin Quotes

I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.

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 made us. He's in charge of everything, right? If He didn't like us, why didn't he change us?

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

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.

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

'Preacher' - what it's saying is not just blasphemy and good, fun violence. It's asking, 'Where is God?' If he is there, what's he doing?

If God existed, only in one way could he serve the cause of human liberty-by ceasing to exist.

God does not play dice.

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

Why do people hate God?... One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he's transforming the world even in the midst of suffering and tragedy.

Luck really has nothing to do with human existence, since God is not a random God.

Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he might capriciously and arbitrarily violate them in order to walk on water, or turn water into wine as a cheap party trick at a wedding?

The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours.

The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.

If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

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

Some people believe God is involved in every little decision we make. Some people believe you're given the free will to make the decisions. Sometimes people believe God is not involved at all.

I had hoped God would be neutral.

God's role in superintending our world and our lives is neither absentee landlord nor micromanager.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.