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atheist felt love rebel though worst
Rebel and Atheist too, why murmur I, / As though I felt the worst that love could do? John Donne
atheist rejection challenges
Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery. Bede Griffiths
atheist claims inference
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid. C. S. Lewis
atheist real believe
Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
atheist people opiates
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.
atheist reading men
In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere — "Bibles laid open, millions of surprises," as Herbert says, "fine nets and stratagems." God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.
atheist reading men
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
atheist men different
I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us. Carl Reiner
atheist pseudoscience difficult
At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion. Carl Sagan
heaven myth night peace
Peace is always beautiful, The myth of heaven indicates peace and night Walt Whitman
heaven want wanting-to-die
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there! B. B. King
heaven hell display
Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.
heaven soul desire
Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.
heaven may ifs
There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going. Bette Davis
heaven glimpse courageous
The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven. Anthony Storr
heaven way pity
What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse. Bill Vaughan
heaven going-to-heaven christianity
Something larger is happening than just going to heaven.
heaven way hardest
Do not ask God the way to heaven; He will show you the hardest way.
religion
Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is. Mario Cuomo
religion
Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking. R. Inge
religion route
Religion is like a map. The route isn't important. It's the destination that matters. Marianne Williamson
religion atheism answers
If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.
religion trying succeed
Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
religion generations world
A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.
religion steps why-not
Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question.
religion atheism kind
[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.
religion bitterness christianity
... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness. Bernadette Devlin