“It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.”
Questions about God have occupied human minds for as long as human minds have existed. These quotes approach the divine from every angle — faith, doubt, reverence, and the honest wrestling that happens when you take the biggest questions seriously.
“We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.”
“It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.”
“If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.”
“God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.”
“The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.”
“We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.”
“God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.”
“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.”
“I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.”
“God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.”
“Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.”
“God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.”
“Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.”
“God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.”
“Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.”
“God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.”