Quotes on Atheism

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.

Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

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.

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

It is imperative that the entire Christian community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the Church's public moral witness presented by a militant atheism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres. The seriousness of these threats needs to be clearly appreciated at every level of ecclesial life.

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order.

I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.

In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.