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I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning…
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity
- Atheism
A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere⁠—‘Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,’ as Herbert says, ‘fine nets and stratagems.’ God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Surprised by Joy (1955), Ch. XII: “Guns and Good Company”
- Atheism
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill1874–1965On his 75th birthday (1947), in reply to a question on whether he was afraid of death, quoted in the N. Y. Times Magazine on November 1, 1964, p. 40 according to Quote It Completely! (1998), Gerhart, Wm
I want to know God’s thoughts…the rest are details.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988
- Anti-Religion
- Prayer
The more I study science, the more I believe in God.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
- Science
Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book III, Chapter 10, “Hope”
- Theology
I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.
Mark Twain1835–1910
- Animals
- Anti-God
There will be two kinds of people in the end: Those that will say to God ‘Thy will be done’ and those to whom God will say ‘Thy will be done.’
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Great Divorce (1944–1945), Ch. 9
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. VI: “Human Pain”
Not only does God play dice, but he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Stephen Hawking1942–2018During the same 1994 exchange with Penrose as the previous quote, transcribed in The Nature of Space and Time (1996) by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, p. 26 and also in “The Nature of Space and Time” (online text)