Hari Kunzru Quotes

I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

The unseen world is what emanates from God.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

If you can define what God is, I can tell you whether I believe in it.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Well, I can't figure out God.

If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

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.

God gave us the mind so that we can know him.

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

God is bigger than people think.

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

God wants us to believe Him to be huge, even if we don't know what to believe Him for in a particular situation and circumstance. I can believe God to be God, to come and show Himself mighty and merciful in that situation, even if I don't really know biblically what I'm to ask Him for.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.