The God Delusion Quotes

#1. The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why.

Michael Ruse

#2. I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take a league. I think, as I did when I wrote The God Delusion, that the Roman Catholic Church is a disgusting institution, the second most evil religion in the world.

Richard Dawkins

#3. Much as I like and admire Richard Dawkins, I do think that to call a book 'The God Delusion' is very worrying because the title implies that if you don't believe in what I believe then you are 'deluded.' That, I think, is a dangerous concept and one that is unlikely to win hearts and minds.

Robert Winston

#4. The God Delusion is a rather disorganized collage of arguments and pastiche of assertions which cannot be said to advance those ideas or enhance their critical edge, but rather harnesses them in the service of the advocacy of atheism.

Alister E. McGrath

#5. Some say while religious fundamentalists betray reason. Moderates betray faith and reason equally. -Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion(Documentary)

Sam Harris

#6. Their [the new atheists] treatment of the religious viewpoint is pathetic to the point of non-being. Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion would fail any introductory philosophy or religion course. Proudly he criticizes that whereof he knows nothing.

Michael Ruse

#7. I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of laughs. And people who describe it as a polarizing book or as an aggressive book, it's just that very often they haven't read it.

Richard Dawkins

#8. People think they want pleasure, recognition, popularity, status, and power, but the pursuit of these things leads to emptiness, delusion, and foolishness. God

Kenneth D. Boa

#9. Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.

T.H. White

#10. In dream, delusion, and fantasy, exist man's next best reality: that place where he is the creator of his own worlds; where he builds, learns, discovers and entertains; is master of all outcomes, his own god of destiny, and thus the student of his own evolving and ever uncertain truth.

Duane Hewitt

#11. On and on we seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their deaths count.

Suzanne Collins

#12. God could easily appear and clear up the global religious chaos and confusion. But a delusion can never appear in reality.

C.J. Anderson

#13. If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written Word of God our sole rule both as to faith and practice, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion and be in great danger of making shipwreck of faith and a good conscience.

George Whitefield

#14. There is no excuse for falling into delusion, which is so contrary to the Word of God.

Dave Hunt

#15. The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#16. Today give up false mental attachments and beliefs! Free yourself from the delusion that anything external can fulfill the hunger of your soul for God-Consciousness.

Michael Beckwith

#17. Lessons in magic from a mysterious boy who belonged to a hidden Ferisher court called the Wild - I couldn't think of anything that would horrify my parents more. Therefore, the proposition became exponentially more enticing.

Ann Aguirre

#18. O how we call each other names
You call me schizophrenic
I call you God
But we do agree on one
Deluded are we both.

Sunil Vidyarthi

#19. If anything keep thy soul out of heaven, which God forbid, there is nothing in the world liker to do it, than thy false hopes of being saved, while thou art yet out of the way to salvation(234). (III.III)

Richard Baxter

#20. It was always baseball for me. This is what I always wanted to do.

Joe Mauer

#21. A mixture, before the English, of irritation and bafflement, of having this same language, same past, so many same things, and yet not belonging to them any more. Being worse than rootless ... speciesless.

John Fowles

#22. A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!

Richard Dawkins

#23. What freedom is found in recognizing that only God creates! No longer must we labor under the delusion of our own self-importance. We need not find our value in people or possessions - it rests in our origin.

Jen Wilkin

#24. The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.

Baltasar Gracian

#25. To me, God is a name that humans give to all that is. Experientially, it is whatever is left over when the delusion of the self is taken away.

Jay Michaelson

#26. For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.

Deepak Chopra

#27. We Neuroscientists have come a long way in proving that God is neither a Delusion nor an Almighty Being watching over life on Earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness. I termed this state of attaining God, as 'Absolute Unity Qualia'.

Abhijit Naskar

#28. We're not only held captive by our sin, but also by the delusion of our righteousness. Resting in God's grace isn't just about confessing your sin; it's about forsaking your righteousness as well.

Paul David Tripp

#29. When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.

Robert M. Pirsig

#30. There's this girl in the mirror, i wonder who she is. Sometimes i think i know her and sometimes i wish i did.

Stephine J. Randall

#31. This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world.

Swami Vivekananda

#32. Victory without God is mockery and delusion, but ... defeat with God is not defeat.

William Faulkner

#33. To reduce the demands of God's law is to do violence to the holiness of God. To inflate one's own self-assessment to the point of self-delusion is an extreme form of pride.

R.C. Sproul

#34. The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you.

Shannon L. Alder

#35. We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

Farley Mowat