Sri Aurobindo Quotes

Sometimes I feel like those born-again folk, always working on their faith, but I'm always working on my atheism. We all have our struggles.

Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.

I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.

Some days I feel like I'm an atheist. Most days, I feel like an agnostic. On a very rare day, I feel like I'm a believer in something.

You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.

For millions of Christians, nevertheless, God is no more real than He is to the non-Christian. They go through life trying to love an ideal and be loyal to a mere principle.

As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty question of whether or not I believe in God. In fact I am about to type, 'I do not believe in God', when the sky goes black as ink, there is a thunderclap and a huge crash of thunder and a downpour of epic proportions. I never do complete the sentence.

I still can't decide which is silliest; a person believing in a God who 'isn't there,' or a person offended by a God whom he doesn't believe exists.

Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God.

Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.

You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.

I'd like to thank God for making me an atheist.

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.

God, come down, if you're really there - Well, you're the one who claims to care!

The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion. According to Renan, "The day after that on which the world should no longer believe in God, atheists would be the wretchedest of all men."

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

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

Atheists who keep asking for evidence of God's existence are like a fish in the ocean wanting evidence of water.

Today secular faith is ebbing, and it is the apostles of unbelief who are left stranded on the beach.

Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

When I sent out a casual and nonscientific poll of my own to a wide cast of acquaintances, friends and colleagues, I was surprised, but not really, to learn that maybe 60 percent claimed a belief in a God of some sort, including people I would have bet were unregenerate skeptics. Others just shrugged. They don't think about this stuff. It doesn't matter to them. They can't know, they won't beat themselves up trying to know and for that matter they don't care if their kids believe or not.

It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

O God, for as much as without Thee We are not enabled to doubt Thee, Help us all by Thy grace To convince the whole race It knows nothing whatever about Thee.

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.