106 Denying God Quotes

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Famous Denying God Quotes

He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist. — Saint Augustine

Question with boldness even the existence of a god. — Thomas Jefferson

A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God. — Ravi Zacharias

As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness. — R. C. Sproul

For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men. — Albert Camus

It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word. — King James I

Man suffers through lack of faith in God. — Ramakrishna

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

God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing. — Anthony Burgess

An exclusive person hates ugliness, discomfort, enemies, sickness, poverty, ignorance. He finally concludes that there is no God and give himself over to abandonment. — Michio Kushi

Anyone who tells you to deny yourself is from Satan. - Paula White

Anyone who tells you to deny yourself is from Satan. — Paula White

God's only excuse is that he does not exist. — Stendhal

The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god. — Marilyn Manson

The deceit, the lie of the Devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Short Denying God Quotes

  • The proud man is forsaken of God. — Plato
  • Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself. — R. C. Sproul
  • Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist. — C. S. Lewis
  • Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity. — Oscar Wilde
  • Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious. — Slavoj Žižek
  • The devil loves it when we say we believe then prioritize everything in our lives ahead of God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Denying god quote To trust God in the light is nothing, but to trust him in the dark, that is faith.
To trust God in the light is nothing, but to trust him in the dark, that is faith.

Denying God Quotes

Pastime with good company I love and shall, until I die. Grudge who list, but none deny! So God be pleased, thus live will I. — Henry VIII of England

If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart. — Saint Augustine

God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better. — Elisabeth Elliot

Denying god quote God sometimes removes people from your life to protect you. Don't run after them.
God sometimes removes people from your life to protect you. Don't run after them.

Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you - indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another. — Ibn Arabi

...he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind...The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God. — John Quincy Adams

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. — George Santayana

Denying god quote Don't ask God to guide your footsteps if you're not willing to move your feet.
Don't ask God to guide your footsteps if you're not willing to move your feet.

We have the power of the Holy Cross, our holy symbol, the divine grace of Christ, only as long as we have the holy marking of the Holy Baptism, meaning we have denied the devil and sided with Christ, and received the Holy Marking, the seal of the Gift of the Holy Spirit. — Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

You are always wanting miracles; but God sows miracles by handfuls under your feet, and yet you still have people who deny their existence. — Allan Kardec

The coming of Christ means a denial of what we thought we were. It means destroying the white devil in us. Reconciliation to God means that white people are prepared to deny themselves (whiteness), take up the cross (blackness) and follow Christ (black ghetto). — James H. Cone

Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives. Those who ought to become the light of the world must necessarily burn and become less and less. By denying self, we are able to win others. — Sadhu Sundar Singh

Accepting God Quotes

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. — Reinhold Niebuhr

You can't go to Heaven hating somebody. Forgive now. Be compassionate now. Be patient now. Be grateful now. Love Jesus and Mary now. Accept God's will now. — Mother Angelica

Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living. — Mary Mcleod Bethune

When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God. - Teresa of Avila

When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God. — Teresa of Avila

A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High, to whom ignorance cannot be more grateful than knowledge. — Nicolaus Copernicus

Denying god quote Don't regret growing older. It's a privilege denied to many.
Don't regret growing older. It's a privilege denied to many.

God grant me courage and hope for everyday, faith to guide me along my way, understanding and wisdom, too, and grace to accept what life gives me to do. — Helen Steiner Rice

Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people. — John Henrik Clarke

To live a disciplined life, and to accept the result of that discipline as the will of God - that is the mark of a man. — Tom Landry

Believe In God Quotes

Simply believing in the existence of God is not exactly what I would call a commitment. After all, even the devil believes that God exists. Believing has to change the way we live. — Mother Angelica

This life is the only hell believers will ever know. But for those who die in their sins, this is their only heaven. — Ray Comfort

Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Denying god quote What if you woke up today with only the things you thanked god for yesterday.
What if you woke up today with only the things you thanked god for yesterday.

I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man. — Jose Rizal

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything. — Blaise Pascal

I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them. — Gene Wilder

Denying god quote Nothing happens by accident. God is preparing you for great things.
Nothing happens by accident. God is preparing you for great things.

Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches. — C. S. Lewis

You ask me 'What’s the the greatest act of faith?' To me is to look in the mirror of God’s word, and see all my faults, all my sin, all my shortcomings and to believe that God loves me exactly as he says he does. — Paul Washer

Believe in God like the sun up in the sky, see science can tell us how but it can't tell us why. I seen a baby cry then seconds later she laughed, the beauty of life the pain never lasts. — J. Cole

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything. — Malcolm Muggeridge

Belief In God Quotes

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily. — Isaac Newton

Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes. — Beth Moore

A man is not saved because he believes in Christ, he believes in Christ because he is saved. — Loraine Boettner

Denying god quote God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pr
God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you too.

What people have to realize is that if one has a firm belief in God and the spirit then one does not make statements that are negative and untrue. — Prince

We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology. — E. O. Wilson

The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself. — Morgan Freeman

The Holy Prophet Mohammed came into this world and taught us: 'That man is a Muslim who never hurts anyone by word or deed, but who works for the benefit and happiness of God's creatures. Belief in God is to love one's fellow men.' — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

When the Lord opens a door, walk through it. If He doesn’t, just trust. — Kari Jobe

Hope -- Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us...A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead. — Barack Obama

Faith is something we never discuss at the dinner table in my family, but I do believe in God. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy

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More Denying God Quotes

Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighbourhood of despair. Even when all doors remained closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! It is easy to be thankful when all is well. A Sufi is thankful not only for what he has been given but also for all that he has been denied. — Shams Tabrizi

A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become God. In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them. Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before the empty tomb, they will ask, ‘Where have they taken Him?’ — Pope Pius XII

It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.... There is a truth which is of Satan. Its essence is that under the semblance of truth it denies everything that is real. It lives upon hatred of the real world which is created and loved by God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man, "but the Babel Fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't. Q.E.D." "Oh, I hadn't thought of that," says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. — Douglas Adams

Loving the world destroys our relationship with God, it denies our faith in God, and it discounts our future with God. — David Jeremiah

God is very generous and does not deny His grace to anyone. Indeed he gives more than what we ask of Him. Faithfulness to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit-that is the shortest route. — Mary Faustina Kowalska

Everyone, whether he is self-denying or self-indulgent, is seeking after the Beloved. Every place may be the shrine of love, whether it be mosque or synagogue. — Hafez

Satre found atheism 'cruel', Camus 'dreadful', and Nietzsche 'maddening'. Atheists who consistently try to live without God tend to commit suicide or go insane. Those who are inconsistent live on the ethical or aesthetic shadow of Christian truth while they deny the reality that made the shadow. — Norman Geisler

We cannot tolerate one mistake from others, and yet God tolerates a planet covered with His own creation that live their entire lives sinning and denying Him, and yet continues to feed, clothe and protect them. — Yasmin Mogahed

Man is nothing; he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him" and "you dishonour God by denying election. You plainly make salvation depend, not on God's 'free grace' but on Man's 'free will.' — George Whitefield

Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or the fervent exercises of the heart? That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless, wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference. — Jonathan Edwards

I am persuaded that men think there is no God because they wish there were none. They find it hard to believe in God, and to go on in sin, so they try to get an easy conscience by denying his existence. — Charles Spurgeon

I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny. — Hans Kung

The declared enemies of God and His Church, heretics and schismatics, must be criticized as much as possible, as long as truth is not denied. It is a work of charity to shout: 'Here is the wolf!' when it enters the flock or anywhere else. — Saint Francis de Sales

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. — Fulton J. Sheen

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play. — Johan Huizinga

We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them. — Ricky Gervais

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. — Mahatma Gandhi

Every revival in history seems to be the result of a few people becoming so hungry for God that they wanted Him more than oxygen. Those who have such hunger will not be denied. It's time to seek a revival that becomes the most famous address in the world. It's time to seek a move of God that won't quit moving. — Rick Joyner

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing. — Douglas Adams

And when we come to refute them, we shall show in its fitting place that this class of men [i.e., the gnostics] has been instigated by satan to a denial of that baptism which is regeneration to God, and thus to a denial of the whole faith [by denying all physical aspects of spirituality, including the incarnatian and bodily resurrection of Jesus]. — Irenaeus of Lyons

For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God. — John Calvin

Christian humility does not consist in denying what there is of good in us; but in an abiding sense of ill-desert, and in the consciousness that what we have of good is due to the grace of God. — Charles Hodge

Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists. — Roy Moore

It's a power that I can't explain. As it flows and it grows and it shapes my faith. There've been hundreds of moments I can't deny. When it brushe against the fire or dwelt in the Fire of God. — Kenneth Copeland

God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better. — Elisabeth Elliot

The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which He starts in us, refuse priority to all else, and be faithful to the sacred. — Jean Toomer

Everywhere I find the signature, the autograph of God, and he will never deny his own handwriting. God has set his tabernacle in the dewdrop as surely as in the sun. No man can any more create the smallest flower than he could create the greatest world. — Joseph Parker

Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider themselves superior define and treat the rest as subhuman, denies the humanity even of those who elevate themselves to the status of gods. — Nelson Mandela

"Christ" states that those who see themselves as "separate" and not "divine" hinder humanity's ability to spiritually evolve. Those who deny their own "divinity" are like "cancer cells" in the body of God. — Barbara Marx Hubbard

Living your problems and loving them like locked rooms is much different from denying them or capitulating to them. It is believing that God is with you in the imperfect, even disappointing circumstances of your life. It is saying to Him with faith in your heart. — Steven Furtick

Social justice is collectivism. Social justice is the rights of a group. It denies individual responsibility. It's a negation of individual responsibility, so social justice is totally contrary to the Word of God. — Ted Cruz

It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God. — Charles Darwin

Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so. — Mark Twain

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