God's nature is revealed most perfectly in the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, as recorded in the New Testament of… — George F. R. Ellis Copy Share Image
I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognized by men, the religion which teaches… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
“Religion is but a desperate attempt to find an escape from the truly dreadful situation in which we find ourselves. Here we… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The light has gone out of our lives... Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The insistence on truthfulness does not disturb the freedom of the individual. The social obligation implied in Satyagraha turns the freedom of… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
...We then examine a particular coding system in DNA and discover that UI [universal information] is conveyed within the genes. Using this… — Werner Gitt Copy Share Image
On the Cross the Jesus of the Four Gospels, who was God, cried out My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
To most theistic believers, human life can have no meaning in a universe without God. Quite sincerely, and with understandable yearning for… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
“The truth is that the greatest enemy of the Western church is not the state or any ideology such as atheism, but… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“Let us learn hence, (1.) That atheism is folly, and atheists are the greatest fools in nature; for they see there is… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
If you suspect that my interest in the Bible is going to inspire me with sudden enthusiasm for Judaism and make me… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Much of the contemporary American atheistic movement seems to be treating atheism like a new kind of religion. … It's just that… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
We do not know how God created, what processes He used, for God used processes which are not now operating anywhere in… — Duane Gish Copy Share Image
A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
It degrades from the equal rank of Citizens all those whose opinions in Religion do not bend to those of the Legislative… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have always believed that there should be no subject about which one cannot make jokes, religion included. Clearly, one is always… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
God exist whether or not men may choose to believe in Him. The reason why many people do not believe in God… — Robert Alexander Crookston Laidlaw Copy Share Image
The right to private judgment is the crown jewel of humanity, and for any person or institution to dare to come between… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
“The claim 'God does not exist' is just as much a claim to know something as saying 'God does exist,' meaning the… — Scott Klusendorf Copy Share Image
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Witches admitted their relations with the devil. Our blood boils - how could they be forced to admit this when there is… — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe the fast track to atheism is reading the Bible. I've read it three times all the way through. It's a… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
All Chaos was once yer kingdom; verily, held ye dominion over the entire Pentaverse, but today ye was sore afraid in dark… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Indeed, one modern President abjured God altogether, ending speeches with a chaste 'Thank you very much.' This was Jimmy Carter, the most… — Jonathan Rauch Copy Share Image
Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image