Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him

No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.

It a heresy to deny that the stars are brought out by God from his treasure-house and hung in the sky every evening; any other view is false to the Catholic faith.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

What is the origin of God?

The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.

If you're going to believe in a God, then you also have to equally believe that there's a flip side to this.

I wouldn't call myself a Christian because I do not believe that Jesus is God, nor do I believe that he ever thought that he was God, or that he ever said that he was God.

I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.

I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.

Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

We, like the people of Israel, would like to think we get to name God. By naming God, we hope to get the kind of god we need; that is, a god after our own likeness.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

It is now widely believed that God is a conservative.

If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.

If, as many people believe, there is a God, and that God made us in his own image, then of course we are distinct from nature, just as He is.

Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.

Man made God in his own image.

It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.

Low views of God destroy the gospel for all who hold them.

God is bigger than people think.

I'm not a member of any faith community, and I think faith is a deeply personal issue that individuals should deal with in their private lives.