Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Faber

So many books that have Christian characters but are written by atheists mercilessly pillory and mock and question the motives of people with faith. I'm past all that.

David Silverman

Nobody finds God in the wake of destruction, ... Very few atheists will look at Katrina or a tsunami and think, 'Oh my, there's a God.'

Sara Sheridan

My family spans many world religions, ethnicities and nationalities. The truth is that I don't have one identity. I'm Scottish, British, European, Humanist, Atheist and in part at least, culturally Jewish.

Charles Spurgeon

I heard the story of a man, a blasphemer...an atheist, who was converted singularly by a sinful action of his. He had written on a piece of paper, "God is nowhere," and ordered his child to read it, for he would make him an atheist too. The child spelled it, "God is n-o-w h-e-r-e. God is now here." It was a truth instead of a lie, and the arrow pierced the man's own heart.

Dennis Prager

Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives

Denis Diderot

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

David Potts

Frankl found that helping others made us stronger, and though he was an atheist when arrested, he found God at Auschwitz,

William Temple

We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.

William Temple

Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ.

Lynn Coady

One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a problem with organized religion - usually a problem they consider to be of moral urgency.

Charles Spurgeon

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

Denis Diderot

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

Elbert Hubbard

Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

Elbert Hubbard

A creed is an ossified metaphor.

Elbert Hubbard

Theology is Classified Superstition.

Elbert Hubbard

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

Edward Witten

Im actually, for the most part, a complete agnostic politically.

Kurt Eichenwald

I am an Obamacare agnostic - if it works, as I hope it will for the good of the nation, then it's a great thing. If it doesn't, then that is a disappointing thing, and we need to try something else.

Ronald D. Moore

I'm an agnostic in the truest sense of the word. I think about these things - I grew up Roman Catholic, I've been interested in Hinduism, in Eastern religions, but I'm not dedicated to anything - I go through periods where I think maybe it's all nonsense; maybe it's 'The Matrix...' I'm open to various ideas.

Ridley Scott

I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting in the chairs, thinking, 'Jeez, why am I here? I'd rather be playing tennis, seriously.'

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I can't gather around and talk about how much everybody in the room doesn't believe in God. I just don't - I don't have the energy for that, and so I... Agnostic separates me from the conduct of atheists whether or not there is strong overlap between the two categories, and at the end of the day I'd rather not be any category at all.

Antonio Banderas

I have to recognize that I am agnostic.

Michelle Bachelet

I am a woman, a socialist, separated and agnostic - all the sins together.

Alexander Graham Bell

I have always considered myself as an Agnostic...

Anna Julia Cooper

Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.