Hamza Yusuf Quotes

Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.

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

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.

What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.

Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical literature. But theology, the study of gods, the study of what gods do, presupposes that gods exist. The only kind of theology that I take account of are those theological arguments that actually argue for the existence of God.

Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.

Question boldly even the existence of God.

Back when the natural sciences, philosophy, and theology were one great intellectual hodgepodge, proving the existence of God was a relatively commonplace exercise. To the modern mind, however, science and religion talk past each other.

Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.

Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him; but Aristotle thought God through logically, and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.

God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separated us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?

My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'.

I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.

Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.

Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.

I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it is certainly the most important truth of human existence. If it is largely error, then it is one of monumentally tragic proportions—and should be vigorously opposed.

It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration.

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

Is there a God? There is, but we don't know where. Or who. And, indeed, why.

God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.