Quotes about atheist
atheist intelligent coward
If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence. John Fowles
atheist practice faces
The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest problems humans face: cooperation without kinship Jonathan Haidt
atheist kings believe
At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God's own heart? Percy Bysshe Shelley
atheist enemy liberty
Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mortal world. Percy Bysshe Shelley
atheist atheism facts
In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived. Percy Bysshe Shelley
atheist eye passion
Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make to seize it, because it pricks our pride, it excites our curiosity and it appears interesting. In fighting for his God everyone, in fact, fights only for the interest of his own vanity, which, of all the passions produced bye the mal-organization of society, is the quickest to take offense, and the most capable of committing the greatest follies. Percy Bysshe Shelley
atheist world ifs
If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced. Percy Bysshe Shelley
atheist believe people
I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they have good reason to believe that quarks and God exist. And they tell me that if I wanted to devote my life to learning what they've learned, I'd find quarks and God just like they did. Mary Doria Russell
atheist window caught
The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God. Martin Buber
atheist mind atheism
It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion. Martin Amis
atheist giving culture
Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death. Pope John Paul II
atheist odds laughing
All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them. Pierre Charron
atheist father blood
The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone! Pope Francis
atheist eye thinking
According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes, I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something, I'm listening to God. Pete Seeger
atheist auschwitz
There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God. Primo Levi
atheist believe men
The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them. Plutarch
atheist teaching practice
Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion. Nathaniel Branden
atheist if-there-is-a-god remember
If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence. George MacDonald
atheist father heaven
God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven. George MacDonald
atheist men world
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world. John Burroughs
atheist parent connections
Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion. Lisa Bonet
atheist growing-up men
At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conception of religion, law, and morality, who reached freethought only after conflict and difficulty. But now a new type of born freethinkers has appeared, who grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be laws of morality, or religion, that authorities existed. They grow up in ideas of negation in everything - in other words, utter savages. Leo Tolstoy
atheist tragedy world
The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank. Leo Tolstoy
atheist internet
The Internet has helped atheists and agnostics coalesce as never before. Lee Strobel
atheist stardust
You are all stardust. Lawrence M. Krauss
atheist jesus stars
Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today. Lawrence M. Krauss
atheist believe guy
I happen to be a devout atheist. I don't believe in God. I still go to church -- I'm not a heathen. I go to an atheist church. We have crippled guys who stand up and testify that they were crippled, and they still are. Paula Poundstone
atheist design brain
There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems obvious: the first study divine design, the second study human undesign. Peter Kreeft
atheist typewriters years
Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out all of Hamlet by chance. But when we find the text of Hamlet, we don't wonder whether it came from chance and monkeys. Why then does the atheist use that incredibly improbable explanation for the universe? Clearly, because it is his only chance of remaining an atheist. At this point we need a psychological explanation of the atheist rather than a logical explanation of the universe. Peter Kreeft
atheist lying heart
Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts. Peter Kreeft
atheist powerful atheism
Atheism cheapens everything it touches - look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth. Peter Kreeft
atheist said hume
Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists. Peter Kreeft
atheist simple talking
Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself. Peter O'Toole