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Atheist Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had…
- Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind…
- If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.
- Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
- A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.
- Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
- I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.
- Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
- A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of…
- A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word,…
- I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
- A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
- Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...
- The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their…
- If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an…
- I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I…
- If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?
- Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not do, you must…
- In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain…
More Atheist Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon
- Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of… — Douglas Adams
- Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. — Edward Abbey
- The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate,… — John Adams
- To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. — Joseph Addison
- No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant
- Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. — Ambrose Bierce
- I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me… — Jack Black
- My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family… — Tony Blair