Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count? — John Piper Copy Share Image
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“If self-denial be the greatest part of godliness, the great letter in the alphabet of religion; self-love is the great letter in… — William Symington Copy Share Image
Practical atheism is when you act the same way as an atheist does even when you believe in God. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
To be guilty of the sin of prayerlessness is to be guilty of the worst form of practical atheism. It is actually… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
“As Peter Berger has noted, the strategy of apologizing for Christian faith by trying to demonstrate its social utility is always eventually… — Craig M. Gay Copy Share Image
