“I had a standing agreement with god. I'd agree to believe in him, barely, so long as he let me sleep in… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question.… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when you name your child 'Christian' only for him to grow up to be an atheist. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am an atheist, although I very much admire and have been influenced by many traditionally religious people. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“But the question is, historically, part of the group that you're a part of - whether it's racial, gender, religious, whatever -… — Jacob Applebaum Copy Share Image
Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ. — William Temple 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
Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
[Nikola Tesla] said he had no interest in the spiritual. He didn't believe in telepathy, didn't believe in any of that stuff,… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Religion is a universal security blanket for a lot of people, especially children. It gives them a sense of security, albeit, I… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
I affirm my faith when I'm asked about it. But I always try to do so in a way that communicates absolute… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I cannot believe in a God who has neither humor nor common sense. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. OK, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
“My name is Matt Besser, and I'm an Arkansas Razorback. My father is a Jew from Little Rock, Ark., my mother was… — Matt Besser Copy Share Image
I'm culturally Jewish but, like most scientists, an atheist: I don't believe there's a God or supernatural world. Buddhism offers guidance on… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am still awake at night, asking how? I am more… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image