Quotes about atheist
atheist loss if-there-is-a-god
If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable of knowing either what He is or if He is. [So] you must wager. Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that he is. Blaise Pascal
atheist atheism worship
If I thought the Jews killed God, I'd worship the Jews. Bill Hicks
atheist revolutionary-ideas suffering
Eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions god's infinite love.
atheist children lying
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. Charles Spurgeon
atheist law atheism
Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade... Ayn Rand
atheist mean fighting
I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.
atheist hands parent
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand. Bertrand Russell
atheist believe philosophical
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true
atheist religion atheism
I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.
atheist men thinking
As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods.
atheist men littles
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
atheist people change-is-good
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
atheist race views
Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
atheist religion atheism
Where knowledge ends, religion begins. Benjamin Disraeli
atheist parent secular
My parents were secular. I am an atheist. Ben Elton
atheist creating religion
I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world. C. S. Lewis
atheist dark simple
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...
atheist lying waiting
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
atheist flower trying
A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower.
atheist cutting causes
If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.
atheist night england
I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.
atheist views atheism
Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
atheist men important
It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could have little faith in ourselves. We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love. Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important, and that his work, well done, is a part of an unending plan. Calvin Coolidge
atheist heart afternoon
But you haven't never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied. You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don't love and don't have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined. Carson McCullers
atheist people church
Yes, believers and non-believers and skeptics can all live together and get along. But there cannot be an imperialistic imposition of religion by the state or by the church. All people must be equal--believers, skeptics, disbelievers, atheists, and those who chose religion. Unless we are all deemed equal, and unless the morality of disbelief is deemed the equivalent of the morality of belief, we will simply be tolerated, and that is not the American way. Alan Dershowitz
atheist believe hypocrite
I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.
atheist thinking trying
As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers - and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be. Alain de Botton
atheist prayer giving-up
I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to engage with religion without having to subscribe to its supernatural content - a way, to put it in more abstract terms, to think about Fathers without upsetting my respectful memory of my own father. I recognized that my continuing resistance to theories of an afterlife or of heavenly residents was no justification for giving up on the music, buildings, prayers, rituals, feasts, shrines, pilgrimages, communal meals and illustrated manuscripts of the faiths.
atheist people priorities
It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is a particular priority for secular Americans, perhaps the most anxious and disappointed people on earth, for their nation infuses them with the most extreme hopes about what they may be able to achieve in their working lives and relationships.
atheists few finds god katrina nobody tsunami wake
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.' David Silverman
atheist family truth
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. Sara Sheridan
atheist love-is names
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
atheist knowing christianity
Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ.