Top 50 Theist Quotes
#1. 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.
Sri Aurobindo
#3. I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I'm an atheist.
[Letter to Max Otto]
John Dewey
#4. 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.
Dan Savage
#5. 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.
George H. Smith
#6. I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.
Tana French
#7. Sometimes if I am walking down the street and thinking about my panoply of God, Ganesha, Parvati [Ganesha's mother], I say "Lucifer," because he belongs in that panoply. I miss him. That's why I'm a theist.
Kevin Sessums
#8. Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.
Frances Power Cobbe
#9. The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe; the theist believes a 'who' created the universe.
Criss Jami
#10. An atheist is as religious as a theist.
Kedar Joshi
#11. The Theist tells us that the truth is god exists,
the Atheist tells us that the truth is there is no god,
while the truth tells us we don't know.
Kodai Okuda
#12. The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.
Joseph McCabe
#13. God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#14. Denying the existence of God leads us to preposterous conclusions so that, in the end, the amoral world of the skeptic who simply cannot explain good is worse than the world of the theist who has an explanation for evil.
Ravi Zacharias
#15. 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.
Will Self
#16. I am a theist. I live life between that "a" and the "t." It's a vast little space.
Kevin Sessums
#17. To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.
R.C. Sproul
#18. 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.
Gordon Allport
#19. I'm always talking to God about whether or not he exists - that's how I know I'm a theist.
Criss Jami
#20. 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.
George H. Smith
#21. The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.
Oscar Wilde
#22. Refer me to one atheist who denies the existence of God ... Etymologically, as well as philosophically, an atheist is one without God. That is all the 'A' before 'Theist' really means.
George William Foote
#24. I'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative.
Kevin Sessums
#25. 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.
Paul Copan
#26. 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
#27. Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
Samuel Butler
#28. In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is born an agnostic. In a patriarchal society, the kid is automatically an atheist.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#29. Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice.
Raheel Farooq
#30. Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments, an atheist does not appear positively to refuse that a God may be ... His verdict on the doctrine of God is only that it is not proven. It is not that it is disproven. He is but an atheist. He is not an anti-theist.
Thomas Chalmers
#32. Surprisingly now, over a half a century later, time symmetric approaches to electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, gravity, and cosmology might be consonant with the kind of eschatology that a theist such as Pannenberg supports.
Robert John Russell
#33. I am 95% a theist and 5% an atheist; thus ultimately I am an agnostic.
Kedar Joshi
#34. I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family ...
Frances Wright
#35. We normally think that theist religions sanctified the great gods. We tend to forget that they sanctified humans, too. Hitherto Homo sapiens had been just one actor in a cast of thousands. In the new theist drama, Sapiens became the central hero around whom the entire universe revolved.
Yuval Noah Harari
#36. An Atheist reads "god is nowhere"
but a theist reads "god is now here "
so the whole thing is our piont of view
how we can see the world ...
Jagvir
#37. Now a theist, he thought he should behave like one, even if it meant him during "the fussy, time-wasting, botheration of it all! the bells, the crowds, the umbrellas, the notices, the bustle, the perpetual arranging and organizing," and, worst of all, the hymns and organ music.
Philip Zaleski
#38. The claim 'God does not exist' is just as much a claim to know something as saying 'God does exist,' meaning the atheist needs just as much substantiation for his claim as the theist does for his.
Scott Klusendorf
#39. The difference between a theist and an atheist is the degree to which God has revealed himself to them.
Eli Of Kittim
#40. Whereas the Agricultural Revolution gave rise to theist religions, the Scientific Revolution gave birth to humanist religions, in which humans replaced gods.
Yuval Noah Harari
#41. The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is empty of 'ultimate purpose' and hence meaningless. Theism thus is an attempt to escape from the human condition; it is a pathetic deceit.
Paul Kurtz
#42. Our English language really says if you're not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheist. What I'm trying to do is develop a language that will enable us to talk about God beyond the, what I think, are sterile categories of theism and atheism.
John Shelby Spong
#43. If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist - he is without that belief. The distinction between atheism and theism is entirely, exclusively, that of whether one has or has not a belief in God.
Chapman Cohen
#44. It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.
Dalai Lama
#45. A scientist is a man who changes his beliefs according to reality; a theist is a man who changes reality to match his beliefs.
Volker Braun
#46. The issue between the atheist and the believer is not whether it makes sense to question ultimate fact, it is rather the question: what fact is ultimate? The atheist's ultimate fact is the universe; the theist's ultimate fact is God.68
John C. Lennox
#47. 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.
Peter Kreeft
#48. Unlike humanity, my mind isn't so frail as to simply climb under gravity and submit to God.
Lionel Suggs
#49. Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.
Bill Gaede
#50. Theists and atheists are equally religious.
Kedar Joshi
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