Quotes about atheist
atheist believe mind
Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing. Maynard James Keenan
atheist want thieves
Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman -they don't want to. John Hagee
atheist america catholic
I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America. John F. Kerry
atheist men thinking
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God. John Donne
atheist men religion
Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing. John Dewey
atheist stupid philosophy
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory. Jimmy Swaggart
atheist thinking creative
The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it. Frank Lloyd Wright
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 choices atheism
Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation. John Fowles
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.
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.
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.
atheist character escaping
The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists . John Maynard Keynes
atheist wall men
The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken. John Lothrop Motley
atheist promise atheism
Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all. John Locke
atheist heaven religion
Imagine there's no heaven... it's easy if you try. John Lennon
atheist sky people
Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today...
atheist fun believe
I'm an atheist. But I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God. We celebrate pretty much every religion in our family with the kids. They love it, and when they say, 'Are we Jewish?' or 'Are we Catholic?' I say, 'Well, I'm not, but you can choose when you're 18. But isn't this fun that we do seders and the Advent calendar?' Jodie Foster
atheist people
People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.
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.
atheist play training
The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress. Joseph McCabe
atheist creativity self
A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant. If God is seen as a self in a world of his own, an ego that relates to a thought, a cause separate from its effect, he becomes a being, not Being itself. An omnipotent, all‐knowing tyrant is not so different from earthly dictators who make everything and everybody mere cogs in the machine which they controlled. An atheism that rejects such a God is amply justified. Karen Armstrong
atheist believe people
I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people. Katharine Hepburn
atheist believe kids
The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not. Josh McDowell
atheist sight vampire
An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight. Laurell K. Hamilton
atheist simple atheism
I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days. Lois McMaster Bujold
atheist justice example
He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing. Ludwig Feuerbach
atheist men agnostic
It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.