“The atheist joined his hands. It wasn't against the Gods. He smiled, with his hands folded, saw his daughter's in-laws approaching near.” — Bhavik Sarkhedi Copy Share Image
I'll long remember the crestfallen look of a pious student when I told him the faculty of a divinity school he planned… — Gary Sloan Copy Share Image
You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious, because it’s only here for a brief moment, a flare against… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed… — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“And what hypocrisy it is on the part of our Government to have the Bible in our courts of law for the… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
You have two choices with Obama. You either believe that he is a man of Christ... or you think he's a liar.… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“A smart person speaks out the truth. A wise person doesn't care about speaking it out, as much as he or she… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Science and religion both make claims about the fundamental workings of the universe. Although these claims are not a priori incompatible (we… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
Some people suggest that a worldview is like a set of glasses that color the way you see the world around you.… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The atheist relies not on an experience but on an idea, or pseudo idea, of God: if God existed, He would have… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“(From Boulez, an authorized biography by Joan Peyser) At the chapel door he [a priest associated with a school Boulez attended] asked… — Pierre Boulez Copy Share Image
“I don't think it is a good mental health practice to fantasize that you know the infinite thoughts of imaginary entities.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I am an atheist. I was born a Catholic, but after I had traveled to Northern Ireland with some Catholic friends, and… — Guy Laliberte 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
I don't want to die. I can't wrap my head around the concept of death because I'm totally atheist. There's nothing after… — Alissa White-Gluz Copy Share Image
Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion. — Nathaniel Branden 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
I was raised Catholic. I rejected it later on. I'm an outspoken atheist now. People say, 'Oh, it's a negative thing to… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
It just seems like atheists are not included in the basket of diversity in America, which is odd because we are the… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Even if you're an agnostic or an atheist, you can create an altar, because an altar is simply paying homage to someone's… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
In two senses: One is that you cannot go on the street and shout that you are an atheist, the other is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and… — Adam Pascal Copy Share Image
My family spans many world religions, ethnicities and nationalities. The truth is that I don't have one identity. I'm Scottish, British, European,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
Why would some all powerful being create creatures capable of reason and then demand that they act in a manner contrary to… — Josh Charles Copy Share Image
Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me… — John Clayton Copy Share Image
I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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