Theist Quotes

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The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.

As a theist I believe that God exists and that God creates.

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.

It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.

Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God’s existence.

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

I'm an agnosto-theist. I cross myself on airplanes. I pray when I'm sick. When you're sick I'll keep you in my thoughts; when I'm sick, I'm entreating a higher power.

Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.

Atheism is the absence of a belief in a god, nothing more. If the theist wishes to draw monumental implications from this lack of belief, he must argue for his claims.

The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole truth.

An atheist is as religious as a theist.

A scientist is a man who changes his beliefs according to reality; a theist is a man who changes reality to match his beliefs.

The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are cognitively empty, and any attempt at proof is logically absurd.

Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.

Theists and atheists are equally religious.

I am 95% a theist and 5% an atheist; thus ultimately I am an agnostic.

I am a theist. I live life between that "a" and the "t." It's a vast little space.

I'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative.

I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family.

God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist.

To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.

I think it's a misreading of Dostoevsky to think of him as a programmatic theist. He's actually much closer to someone like William James. He's actually a pragmatist.

God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.

Unlike humanity, my mind isn't so frail as to simply climb under gravity and submit to God.

Spirituality can exist only in a pure heart.

Spirituality can exists only in a pure heart.

If God really valued loyalty, He would have blessed every single believer before He even considered blessing a single nonbeliever.

Even those who want to go to heaven would rather kill than be killed.