Quotes about atheist
atheist struggle clouds
I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment. Adam Hamilton
atheist reality understanding-god
Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind. God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept. Abraham Joshua Heschel
atheist ear including love music people seem
When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love. A. N. Wilson
atheist basically becomes easy god guy walk
When you walk away from God, and you walk away from Christ, you're basically uprooting the very foundations of being. So I don't think there is an easy way to do that. Even for the guy who becomes an atheist out of it, it's messy. It ain't pretty. Corbin Bernsen
atheists bad both except offending people religion seems starting struggling
Like, my feelings on religion are starting to morph. I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious. Patton Oswalt
atheists change crisis death hoping realize start time
There are no atheists in foxholes, they say, and I was a foxhole atheist for a long time. But after going through a midlife crisis and having many things change very quickly, it made me realize my mortality. And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. Peter Steele
atheists currents faith
I like America, where believers eddy around each other like currents of air. Even our atheists are devout! To be an American is to be a believer. I don't have much faith in institutions, but I still believe in people. Victor LaValle
atheist heart desire
Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery. Cormac McCarthy
atheist appreciate historical
Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate. Cliff Stearns
atheist heaven religion
Pope Francis said that atheists are still eligible to go to heaven. To return the favor, atheists said Popes are still eligible to go into a void of nothingness. Conan O'Brien
atheists bad deed easier forgive god people possibly problem reconcile religious themselves
Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you. Ian Mcewan
atheist believe came faith frustrated god parents science since students studies viewed
Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.
atheist became beyond chemistry graduate life physics quantum seemed
I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics, chemistry and physics had it all. And I didn't see any need to go beyond that. Francis Collins
atheists attention exhausted folks religion religious screaming
I think religion is a mistake - I'm exhausted by its self-righteousness. I think atheists should start screaming for attention like religious folks do. Bjork
atheists christmas display good militant religion understand visible
Atheists well understand that Christmas is the most visible display of religion in the world, and that any diminishment of it is a good thing to militant secularists. Bill O'Reilly
atheist wind religion
I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot). Kurt Vonnegut
atheist atheism foxholes
The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the sermon afterwards, and he said, "There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.
atheist thinking people
People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.
atheist worst-moments cynical
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
atheist believe agnostic
I'm a polyatheist - there are many gods I don't believe in. Dan Fouts
atheists believe call god though
I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not. Ed Asner
atheist believe god produce
American Protestants do not have to believe in God because they believe in belief. That is why we have never been able to produce an interesting atheist in America. Stanley Hauerwas
atheists theory
If you ask most atheists if the theory of evolution has anything to do with a belief, however, they will tell you that it doesn't. It's not something that has to be believed. It is a 'fact.' Ray Comfort
atheist philosophy office
All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required a lot of scribbling, recording, and ciphering. Thus, he declares that accounting and control are the chief things necessary for the organizing and correct functioning of society. . . . Here we have the philosophy of the filing clerk in its full glory. Ludwig von Mises
atheists duties human shown
Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos. Hans Jonas
atheist prayer book
When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.* Elizabeth Cady Stanton
atheist doe saint
Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today. Albert Camus
atheist
Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.
atheist believe religion
I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
atheist names waiting
The Atheist waits for proof of God. Till that proof comes he remains, as his name implies, without God. His mind is open to every new truth, after it has passed the warder Reason at the gate. Annie Besant
atheist believe self
The position of the Atheist is a clear and reasonable one. I know nothing about ‘God’ and therefore I do not believe in Him or in it; what you tell me about your God is self‐contradictory, and therefore incredible. I do not deny ‘God,’ which is an unknown tongue to me; I do deny your God, who is an impossibility. I am without God.
atheist religion atheism
Then why did you tell me? Annie Dillard
atheist believe judging
If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.