Atheism Quotes

When the Amherst sphinx styled herself a pagan, she meant she didn't believe in the biblical God. What sort of deity, if any, she did believe in is hard to pinpoint.

Biographies by preachers are of no value. If they admire a man they always make him a saint, while if they dislike one, they always make him a demon.

I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.

Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.

God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.

A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?

'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays.

Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.

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.

A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. ("To Science")

On the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the Earth.

We have one country, one Constitution and one future that binds us.

We know that men and women can be good without faith. We know that.

God speaks through me.

I'm mindful in a free society that people can worship if they want to or not. You're equally an American if you choose to worship an almighty and if you choose not to.

There is at least one more atheism left; it is by its very nature a belligerent form that wants to spread far and wide by propagating itself though books, TV, and other media.

My answer would be definite yes! Destructive atheism, in my view and the view of the Church, is part of a much larger picture - cosmic warfare, that is, between God and Evil, between God and Satan.

The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.

In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).

Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real.

I believe it's my pastoral duty to convert friends to atheism.

Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism.

I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.

The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart.

The union of church and state put the church under a political control... The church was thoroughly subordinated to the state.

The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion ... that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the opposition of the State.

Christian endeavor is notoriously hard on female pulchritude.

Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.

The church lives because it witholds the results of the historical Jesus-research from you

The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience.

The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question.

I do not know the needs of a god or of another world... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one.

Dr. Manton taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-Churchman, that I might never hear him read nor read him more.

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.

Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.

Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall.

Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars, And shatters iron locks to thunder forth her wars.

Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism.

No sign of purpose can be detected in any part of the vast universe disclosed by our most powerful telescopes.

When I die I won't go to heaven or hell; there will just be nothingness.

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.