I think it's a misreading of Dostoevsky to think of him as a programmatic theist. He's actually much closer to someone like… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction... — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual. — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
“The difference between a theist and an atheist is the degree to which God has revealed himself to them.” — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
“Speaking to a 'non-theist', 'How do you what you don't believe in if you have never read the Bible?'".” — Belle from Kentucky Copy Share Image
I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
A scientist is a man who changes his beliefs according to reality; a theist is a man who changes reality to match… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Refer me to one atheist who denies the existence of God… Etymologically, as well as philosophically, an atheist is one without God.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments, an atheist does not appear positively to refuse that a God may be...… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“A theist can't empirically prove that God exists but he believes in God because no one can allegedly disprove God's existence. By… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
“We normally think that theist religions sanctified the great gods. We tend to forget that they sanctified humans, too. Hitherto Homo sapiens… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Sometimes if I am walking down the street and thinking about my panoply of God, Ganesha, Parvati [Ganesha's mother], I say "Lucifer,"… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In affirming God to be supreme in all things, the classical theist describes him in a number of ways. He is perfect,… — Alexander Waugh Copy Share Image
That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Open theists affirm the same openness of the future that religious believers assume when they pray and almost all humans assume when… — Philip Clayton Copy Share Image
I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
So how do theists respond to arguments like this? [The Argument from Evil] They say there is a reason for evil, but… — Quentin Smith Copy Share Image
“The Oracle pursued a logical course of confuting theism, and leaving 'a-theism' the negative result. It did not, in the absurd terms… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The atheist generally says (though the bold Dr. Victor Stenger goes a bit further) that the existence of a deity cannot be… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I'm an agnosto-theist. I cross myself on airplanes. I pray when I'm sick. When you're sick I'll keep you in my thoughts;… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
“The Theist tells us that the truth is god exists, the Atheist tells us that the truth is there is no god,… — Kodai Okuda Copy Share Image
If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them. — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Atheism is the absence of a belief in a god, nothing more. If the theist wishes to draw monumental implications from this… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
Theists give several 'proofs' of the existence of God. These are really just arguments, because if there were convincing proof just one… — Marcel Conche Copy Share Image
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances. — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
“Atheist's will seek a logical explanation when something is not understood where as Theist's will call it God's will.” — Christopher Paul Flateau Copy Share Image
![“Sometimes if I am walking down the street and thinking about my panoply of God, Ganesha, Parvati [Ganesha's mother], I say "Lucifer," because he belongs in that panoply. I miss him. That's why I'm a theist.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b00/kevin-sessums-9486_ifs_sometimes-if-i-am-walking-down-the-stree_338066.jpg)
![“So how do theists respond to arguments like this? [The Argument from Evil] They say there is a reason for evil, but it is a mystery. Well, let me tell you this: I'm actually one hundred feet tall even though I only appear to be six feet tall. You ask me for proof of this. I have a simple answer…” quote by Quentin Smith](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/635/quentin-smith-54821_accepting_so-how-do-theists-respond-to-arguments-l_1707372.jpg)
