Muriel Rukeyser Quotes

I think there's a God and I know it's not me. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life.

On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.

I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

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.

Conscience is God present in man.

I believe in God.

I've always believed in God, from the time I was very, very young. I always knew there was something with me, not necessarily knowing what to call it.

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.

And she would say, "Today you believe in God?" And he would say, "Today I believe in love".

From the age of three on, as far back as I remember, I just knew there was a God behind everything.

I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.

I wouldn't even like to begin to define God - I have absolutely no idea. But what I feel, and what touches me, is a great spiritual power, which I don't even want to name. If I had to, I would say God, because I don't know any other.

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

The evening news made her wonder if God was dead; the morning sun made her believe He wasn't.

The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry

I am a person of faith. I'm certainly not an atheist or an agnostic and I see some divine force somewhere.

Without God, I don't see how folks cope.

I believe in God, and I'm a Christian.

God is the most important thing in our lives. I suppose that's true of everybody's lives, whether or not they want to believe it.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion.

I believe in God big time and I'm proud to say I believe in God.

It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.