Quotes on Atheist

We all - whether naturalists, atheists, Buddhists, or Christians - see the world through the grid of an interpretive framework - and ultimately this interpretive framework is religious in nature, even if not allied with a particular institutional religion.

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.

As I've said before, you can be an atheist and anything you like.

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

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

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.

The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy which is cordial drivel, mediocrity served up sweet. There is nothing that so insidiously displaces the majestic as cordiality.

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

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

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all... My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul. My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is 'Lord, I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.

Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.

Why do more than 40 percent of Americans think that the Universe began after the domestication of the dog?

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.

Religious people are atheists about all other gods, atheists only take it one god further.

Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love.

An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.