“We have been created as recipients. I look at the stars, at the grass, at my fat-faced children, at my fingernails, and… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s,… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it's a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose. Which… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“I remember Bob saying, 'Some people who believe in God are good, and some people who believe in God are not good.… — Leslie Berlin Copy Share Image
Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
A wise man once told me- he’s a muslim by the way- that he has more in common with a jew than… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Faithiest resonated with me in many ways-not only because, like Chris, I am a gay former-Christian atheist who still thinks of my… — John Corvino Copy Share Image
“I simply would not accede to being forced into this, and would frequently be kept out of classes because of irreverent comments… — Richard E. Leakey Copy Share Image
Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“When a mere girl, my mother offered me a dollar if I would read the Bible through; . . . . despairing… — Elmina Drake Slenker Copy Share Image
I followed him up the stairs. I was a fornicator, of unnatural appetite, in thrall to an Atheist. I repeated the words… — Maria McCann Copy Share Image
In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
As the books got more and more Zionist and less and less socialist, my entire generation, at least a large percentage of… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You know, on the spectrum of religious belief, there is atheism - these are people that don't believe. There's theism - these… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
Make philosophy thy journey, theology thy journey's end: philosophy is a pleasant way, but dangerous to him that either tires or retires;… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious belief in lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics,… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
As far as I can tell from studying the scriptures, all you do in heaven is pretty much just sit around all… — Rick Reynolds Copy Share Image
Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“My practice as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god,… — J.B.S. Haldane Copy Share Image
I’m an atheist. The good news about atheists is that we have no mandate to convert anyone. So you’ll never find me… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
“[Obituary of atheist philosopher Richard Robinson] An Atheist's Values is one of the best short accounts of liberalism (a term Robinson accepted)… — Nicolas Walter Copy Share Image
Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“In a long and eventful life", the Doctor said eventually, "I have experienced nothing that I could not account for by the… — Andy Lane Copy Share Image
If you are a Christian, you can still practice Stoicism and think of the Logos as the Word of God. If you… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
No it's not!" said Constable Visit. "Atheism is a denial of a god." "Therefore It Is A Religious Position," said Dorfl. "Indeed,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination,… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so, cannot; or they… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The most frustrating thing about our doctrine in the modern church is that the unbelievers who have never been to church, the… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“[ Biographical info on Rita ] Born and raised in a Sephardic Jewish family in which culture and love of learning were… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
“Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
“We advocate the atheistic philosophy because it is the only clear, consistent position which seems possible to us. As atheists, we simply… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
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