Quotes about Philosophy
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It is a sin to regard the fact that God cannot do the impossible as a limitation on his powers.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.
- NT Wright
Either there is a God or there isn't. Both possibilities are frightening.
- Ray Comfort
Even a brilliant research scientist can waste his or her efforts, in [Stephan Hawking's] case on theoretically impossible lines of research, if he or she rejects clear evidence pointing to God.
- Hugh Ross
Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.
- David Bentley Hart
If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and standard of all truth.
- Nancy Pearcey
In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.
- Bill Gates
The question is not, "Why is there only one way to God?" but "Why is there even one way?"
- RC Sproul