Atheism Quotes

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

HEAVEN: The big apartheid in the sky.

If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you.

But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.

It's the noisiest thing I've ever experienced.

If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.

Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?

Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God.

My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.

Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.

The Crime, from us, is hidden, [though] he is presumed to know.

Those who lift their hats shall see Nature as devout do God.

Information doesn't kill you.

A belief is not true simply because it is useful.

It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.

Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.

There is so much wrong with the world. (tanta stat praedita culpa)

So much wrong could religion induce.

Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue.

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd.

To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?

Do not make gods in your own images.

Terror is everywhere the beginning of religion.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

I think I stand where that man stands.

Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work.

I believe in Providence and I believe Providence to be just. Therefore I believe that Providence always rewards the strong, the industrious, and the upright.

The principle applies here, help yourselves and Almighty God will not deny you his assistance.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

[O]nly if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in the way of a friendlier destiny can only thus be rendered ineffective.

You accept the historical Jesus?

Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

That is the most frightening sight I have ever seen.

This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim.

But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.

There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.

Damning, with bell, book and candle / Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. / A rite permitting Satan to enslave him / Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him.

I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.

Jerusalem has been - and for many, still is - a metaphor for destruction and the vengeance of an offended God. She is the city where believers have killed unbelievers to give life to faith.

I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.

The evaporation of 4 million who believe in this crap would leave the world a better place.

The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.

[G]et two-thirds of the states to alter the Constitution; come out with their national religion, and then let the people get their throats ready.

We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question that we do not know.

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.