Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

It is certain because it is impossible.

I'm completely lacking any sense of religious belief, but I am superstitious.

We live in an age of technology and science that demands proof, and yet we desire mystery. But when God gives us mystery, we seek to destroy it by gross indifference or childish reasoning.

We have a God who delights in impossibilities.

It is to believed because it is absurd.

I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles.

Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.

Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.

I don't believe in curses. I believe in God.

In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

… like looking for an atheist in heaven

People who believe in science have a hard time believing in ghosts and the supernatural.

I believe in divine intervention.

Have you ever noticed that when you pray, coincidences happen? And when you don't, they don't.

Religion and science have nothing to do with each other, they're about different things, science is about the way the world works and religion is about [...] miracles. [...] And in any case, if you ask most ordinary people in church or in a mosque why they believe, it's almost certainly got something to do with the belief that God does wonderful things, that God intervenes, that God heals the sick, that God answers prayers, God forgives sins.

And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles

I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.

Saying that you don't believe in magic but do believe in god is a bit like saying you don't have sex with dogs, except labradors.

If you can see the invisible, God will do the impossible.

You asked the Holy Spirit for a miracle, and now that you’ve got one you’re trying to argue it away. People who don’t believe in miracles shouldn’t pray for them.

A man walking through a wall is a miracle. A man both walking and not walking through a wall at the same time and in the same respect is a contradiction. God can perform miracles but not contradictions - not because his power is limited, but because contradictions are meaningless.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile

I'm believing that miracles and blessings still exist.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.