Theism Quotes

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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.

The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism.

The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry

Anti-theism presupposes Theism

What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)

When I hear that a personal friend has fallen into matrimonial courses, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism — a holy sorrow, unmixed with anger.

Christianity is not a mere religion but an experimentally testable science.

Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture.

Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures like laws and educational programs.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence

Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic.

Atheism is the last word of theism

It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.

We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it.

The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of that light.

It turns out that the word atheism means much less than I had thought. It is merely the lack of theism.

On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.

Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.

I don't endorse deism or interventionist theism. My point is just that evolutionary biology is logically compatible with the former and with some versions of the latter.

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.

God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.

Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.

Nothing can penetrate the loneliness of the human heart except the highest intensity of the sort of love the religious teachers have preached.

[T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.]

I do not find theism any more credible than materialism as a comprehensive world view. My interest is in the territory between them.

If God really valued loyalty, He would have blessed every single believer before He even considered blessing a single nonbeliever.

Many people are not conforming with theism, but they are comfortable with spiritualism.

Theism is a philosophy of non-thinker.

If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I'd be a skeptic.

It is not that men become too intelligent for God, ' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence.

Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christianity: 'If it's not about Christ, it's not about life.

[This philosophy] … is antagonistic to minds perverted and crippled by a superhuman

I do not regard the limits of the past and present as the limits of humanity of the future

You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do...and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.

Even those who want to go to heaven would rather kill than be killed.

It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence, " said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang, " said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

I'm always talking to God about whether or not he exists - that's how I know I'm a theist.

The disruption of science is one which abandons the method and seeks to conquer grounds outside its territory. It is not at all religion but this pseudo-science that is the enemy of science.

To the short-sighted, through the fog, God must be a monster.