I don't believe in heaven and hell. I don't know if I believe in God. All I know is that as an… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
“—Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant? —I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Premature as the question may be, it is hardly possible not to wonder whether we will find any answer to our deepest… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to… — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty… — Susan Ertz Copy Share Image
How some dare scorn (as if a fabulous lie) that they should rise whom death to dust doth bind -- and like… — William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling Copy Share Image
There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For me, it goes without saying that much of the dogma of many religions is harmful. Thinking other people will burn forever… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
Nothing, indeed, could be more unlike the tone of the [Patristic] Fathers, than the cold, passionless, and prudential theology of the eighteenth… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
It is often lamented by the churchmen that Washington and Lincoln possessed little religion except that found in the word 'God.' All… — David Swing Copy Share Image
Religion grows with the intelligence of man, but all religions of the past and probably all of the future will sooner or… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Organizational Development: The New Christian Right of the 1980s was dominated by paper organizations that were essentially the mailing lists of a… — Kenneth D. Wald Copy Share Image
“Another problem with the view that you don’t need God to believe that murder is wrong is that a lot of people… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Further, economic systems ... have never arranged themselves by themselves. It is men who do the ordering according to their attitudes, desires… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin; and the more ignorant he was… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
He who dishonors himself [by lying about his opinions] for the sake of being honored by others will find that two mistakes… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The Church of Rome has made it an article of faith that no man can be saved out of their church, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
A Creator must exist. The Big Bang ripples and subsequent scientific findings are clearly pointing to an ex nihilo creation consistent with… — Henry F. Schaefer, III Copy Share Image
To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I have said I have met Satan, and this is true. But it is not tangible. It no more has horns, hooves… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
“I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said,… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
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