Sam Harris Quotes

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

Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.

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

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.

Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity.

Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?

It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.

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

If there's a Devil, that mean's there's a God.

God has a thousand names, or rather He is Nameless.

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

The last story: God is everything, God is good.

There is something very unhealthy about Christianity.

I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.

I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details.

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

The way to be truly happy is to be truly human, and the way to be truly human is to be truly godly.

Your thoughts of God are too human

Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against them as much and for as long a time as they have used for inventing their lies - that is, longer than two thousand years.

I don't believe in any religion apart from doing the will of God.

Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God; the knowledge of God is the very basis of religion.

Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued, investigation of the great subject of the Deity. The most excellent study for expanding the soul is the science of Christ and Him crucified and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity.

All the religions of the world say God is the creator. If he is really the creator, then the only way to meet him will be to become a creator in some measure.

A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.