Theological Arguments Quotes

Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his existence always strike me as kinds of games, since hardly anyone believes on the basis of these arguments at all.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

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

Most of the people who oppose idol worshipping belong to TMC.

If God exists, what objection can he have to saying so?

I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past. In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still... and hasted not to go down about a whole day' (Joshua x. 13) and 'He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not move at any time' (Psalm cv. 5) were an adequate refutation of the Copernican theory.

When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.

I find the evidence for the deity of Jesus and the reliability of the Bible to be powerful and persuasive, and that evidence has only gotten stronger over the years.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.