atheism quotes

I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‚Father, the atheists?‘ Even the atheists. Everyone!

Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: ‚Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.‘

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

You don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

I’m an atheist.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

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

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.