Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world. Remark to Ernst Straus, one of his assistants.

Anything you don't understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC

It is my firm opinion that Europe does not represent the spirit of God or Christianity but the spirit of Satan. And Satan’s successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter if he was God or not?

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls.

I am prepared to meet my maker; whether my maker is prepared to meet me is entirely another matter.

Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not.

"There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side."

May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I sure as hell won't.

God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not number One; he is.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.

If there is a god, he sure hates people. That’s all I can say.

"I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done."
"Nice going, God!"
"Nobody but You could have done it, God! I certainly couldn't have."
"I feel very unimportant compared to You."
"The only way I can feel the least bit important is to think of all the mud that didn't even get to sit up and look around."

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid. PBS interview with David Frost (November 1995).

Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.

When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too.

If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.