Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
If you must believe in anything, believe in yourselves, in your senses, in your minds. To accept a religious creed is to… — Marilla Ricker Copy Share Image
I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let me say that I don't see any conflict between science and religion. I go to church as many other scientists do.… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“Deeds are divine, not doctrines. Actions are religious, not creeds.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own --… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. — Christopher Hitchens 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
If a person is ashamed of himself, it means that the next stage of development has come. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
One would suppose that the battle for religious liberty was won in the United States two hundred years ago. However, in the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
For most cosmologists, a supernatural God is an unnecessary hypothesis. For most Americans, He is an unassailable fact. The American belief machine… — Gary Sloan Copy Share Image
That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
I hope and believe my co-religionists understand and admit that I disclaim their theology in toto, and that by no twisting of… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“There may be some truth (atheists) do not need to believe in a god to be good, but then if they do… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary. — David Eller Copy Share Image
There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
If, when we compare two versions of a story, the second known to be a retelling of the first, and find that… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god.… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction... — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
As a preacher, I'm working with the crowd, watching the crowd, trying to bring them to that high point at a certain… — Marjoe Gortner Copy Share Image
If you look at life as a whole, we have to admit life's good where we live. But in an evil Twilight… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“The only interesting thing about religion is how many people it's slaughtered. Communism and Nazism are religions as well, make no mistake… — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
“There was no hope on earth, and God seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the Son of God; others… — Red Cloud Copy Share Image
If life can emerge just from naturalistic circumstances, then God is out of a job. — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you. — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image