Gregory David Roberts Quotes

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 don't think I have any particular problem with God.

Ultimately, I feel like there is just a pervasive evidence of God. Though I know that is maybe a controversial thing to say.

I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.

What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.

Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands?

I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details.

Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs

It never really occurred to me to believe in God.

If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.

I choose to believe in God, but I have serious doubts.

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.

A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.

Our English language really says if you're not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheist. What I'm trying to do is develop a language that will enable us to talk about God beyond the, what I think, are sterile categories of theism and atheism.

I ought to pray as much as God's on my mind, because then I'd pray a lot. All I can tell you is God is real, and so that infuses everything.

I think, if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.

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

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

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

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.