Atheism Quotes

Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is The Origin of Species.

A man convinced against his will is not convinced.

If life can emerge just from naturalistic circumstances, then God is out of a job.

There is no way you can harmonize neo-Darwinism and Christianity.

And the cause of everything is that which we call God.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did.

Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.

In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.

The United States is not a Christian nation. It is a great nation with Christians, among others, in it. But our greatness is based on the fact that there is no official religion.

The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.

Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.

Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.

Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.

True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.

What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion.

Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education.

Of course it must, and our scientific men must be criticized boldly. They will not feel comfortable when you and I are through with them.

Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth, as one of the worst enemies of mankind.

The agnostic is gutless and prefers to keep one safe foot in the god camp.

It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

Watches may disagree, but let us not.

I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God."

The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.

Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.

From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason.

If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.

You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.

Enthusiasm is contagious - so is a lack of it. Joyless Christians are a greater assault on the gospel than atheism.

Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions.

Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.

The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.

This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet.

You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'

Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot retreat to the comforts of atheism.

I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.

All three of our major religions in Britain ~ Christianity, Islam and Judaism - have a hateful idea at the very core. That idea is Exclusion: the "othering," if you like, of the unredeemed.

I think the Constitution has been upheld. I think they made the right decision.

He's a smart man, so I am assuming he will do it.

In the absence of fear there is little faith.

My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.

The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.