I Quotes
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“If God created the universe, there was a time when he commenced to create. Back of that commencement there must have been an eternity. In that eternity what was this God doing? He certainly did not think. There was nothing to think about. He did not remember. Nothing had ever happened. What did he do? Can you imagine anything more absurd than an infinite intelligence in infinite nothing wasting an eternity?”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“If God created time & space, he would be beyond Time & space, that means if any religion talks about a judgment day where god's presence is mandatory to judge your deed, is pure stupidity. God would not need to wait for a time till the end of this universe to judge you.”
“If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."
(Notebooks)”
“If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.”
“If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures?”
Source: The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings
“If God declares that all is well, ten thousand devils may declare it to be ill, but we laugh them all to scorn. Blessed be God for a faith which enables us to believe God when the creatures contradict Him.”
Source: Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
“If God did not act first, no one would be saved.”
“If God did not care for you, there would never be a sense of a need to respond.”
“If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist.”
“If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist."
(Voltaire)”
“If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.”
Source: Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence
“If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.”
Source: Candide: and other writings
“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.”
“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.”
“If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.”
“If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?”
“If God did not intend the cat to live happily with humankind, why is there a meow in the middle of the word 'hoMEOWner'?”
Source: The Cat's Pajamas
“If God did not love us, we could not love him. And Sufis are those who have realized this love.”
“If God did not reveal himself with word-by-word
precision, then He has placed the revelation of
truth into the incompetent hands of fallen man.
That would prove hopelessly imbecilic. He who
revealed Himself with exactness in “natural” creation
chose the precise words, sentences and paragraphs to compile one Book in which we have His perfect Word.”
“If God did not want us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.”
Source: Experiencing Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study
“If God didn’t design the road, you can be assured that it’s a very short path to a really steep cliff.”
“If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer.”
“If God didn’t want us to be happy, he wouldn’t have invented cheese.”
Source: The Secret Ingredient
“If God didn't want man to hunt, He wouldn't have given us plaid shirts.”
“If God didn't want us to eat cows, why are they made out of meat?”
“If God didn't want you to be a dreamer, He wouldn't go around handing out dreams! That's a clue!”
“If God didn't want you to have it, He would never have let you see it.”
“If God didn't want you to masturbate, he would have given you short arms.”
“If God dislikes gays so much, how come he picked Michelangelo, a known homosexual, to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling while assigning Anita Bryant to go on television and push orange juice?”
“If God does exist, it's in music and in art, I think there's more spiritually in what I do than in a lot of religious groups judging, especially in the way they've treated me in the past couple of years. I've grown tired of talking about religion. It's time for me to move on. I'm trying to redefine the idea of spirituality and make it now such a bad word for myself, because I find that I sound really stupid saying it sometimes”
“If God does not change, how come His attributes evolve and many names are associated with Him?”
“If God does not enter your kitchen, there is something wrong with your kitchen. If you can't take God into your recreation, there is something wrong with your play. We all believe in the God of the heroic. What we need most these days is the God of the humdrum, the commonplace, the everyday.”
“If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without ... let men believe in the lies of religion since they cannot do without them, and let then a handful of sages, who know the truth and can live with it, keep it among themselves. Men are then divided into the wise and the foolish, the philosophers and the common men, and atheism becomes a guarded, esoteric doctrine - for if the illusions of religion were to be discredited, there is no telling with what madness men would be seized, with what uncontrollable anguish.”
“If God does not exist, everything is permitted.”
“If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.”
“If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.”
“If God does not give you something you ask for, wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant your prayer.”
“If God does not have our highest allegiance, we will use prayer to try to get things that have that designation.”
“If God does not save men by truth, he certainly will not save them by lies. And if the old gospel is not competent to work a revival, then we will do without the revival.”
Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series
“If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.”
“If God doesn't build the vision, He will tear it down.”
“If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.”
“If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.”
“If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.”
“If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.”
“If God dropped acid, would he see people?”
“If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots.”
Source: Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions
“If God ever commands the spirit of wisdom to depart from me, well, I reckon that I'll never be able to compose the written word again. Not in music, and not in literature. If there is a blank page before me, it wouldn't matter if my right hand held a thousand dollar ink pen from the House of Montblanc, or an ink pen branded Paper Mate, not one word would be jotted from the ink of either or, and the page would remain blank. ("Primary Blog: The Final Post at the Boutique Domain," 2015)”
“If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as "worship.”
“If God existed, only in one way could he serve the cause of human liberty-by ceasing to exist.”