At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
If those millions squandered on designing missionaries had been deposited in funds for the support of yourselves, when old age, misfortune, or… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
[If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“All these people described their doubts in the same way: as having been thrust unwillingly into their minds by the devil. We… — Alec Ryrie Copy Share Image
Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Supposing all the great points of atheism were formed into a kind of creed, I would fain ask whether it would not… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
“What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted?… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
One thing about religious truths is that we have to take them on faith, and faith needs reassurance. What’s more reassuring than… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
I am thoroughly convinced that when the last chapter of humanity is written, we will find that the implications of atheism, i.e.,… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The greatest mistake one can make is to learn of all things and not of God. — Wilson Khashane Msendevu Copy Share Image
Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once… — George Agnew Reid Copy Share Image
The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God. — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“By now, he was also a 'Protestant Atheist', which he remained all his life.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you are insulted for your sarcasm, that means you hit the target you killed the person you mocked on. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
New knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of evolution of more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“Don’t curse the gods; you will feel shame when you have to call on them for help” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The main problem with those who deny the existence of God is not intellectual. It is not because of insufficient information, or… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't believe in God. I believe in man -- in his strength, his possibilities, and his reason. — Gherman Titov Copy Share Image
Tolerance is thin gruel compared to the rapture of absolute truths. It's not surprising that religious people are often better protected by… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Die on a hilltop... eyeing the crows... waiting for your lids to close... but you want to watch as they peck your… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
“A long time ago I learned that an atheist and a believer trying to have a discussion about God and religion is… — T.K. Decker Copy Share Image
Will any one, save the most bigoted, contend, that it is not certain gain to humanity to spread unbelief in the terrible… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
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