John Henrik Clarke Quotes

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive.

I guess that is what dying must be like; to be finished and to be able to look back at the struggles of life, and know that God was your constant companion.

Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die.

I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

I'm unfinished. I'm unfixed. And the reality is that's where God meets me is in the mess of my life, in the unfixedness, in the brokenness. I thought he did the opposite, he got rid of all that stuff. But if you read the Bible, if you look at it at all, constantly he was showing up in people's lives at the worst possible time of their life.

We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.

I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.

I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn't the end and there's something more, but I can't convince the rational part of me that that makes any sense whatsoever.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.

Freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.

People say, 'Did you violate Heaven?' Well, God is down here, too. If you believe in God, you believe in God here as well as 240,000 miles away.

I place my life in the hands of God each day. And I trust that He knows what He's doing, even when I do not.