Atheist Quotes

1309 Atheist quotes by 656 unique authors

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… — C.S. Lewis
God is not discoverable or demonstrable by purely scientific means, unfortunately for the scientifically minded. But that really proves nothing. It simply means that the… — John Bertram Phillips
If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. — Annie Dillard
Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from? — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days, wants to penetrate, and to… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven. — George MacDonald
Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature… — R C Sproul
According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe in God. Yet it is… — John Baillie
Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Without God, life is everything. — Joseph Simmons
The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The… — Frank Zappa
Why would some all powerful being create creatures capable of reason and then demand that they act in a manner contrary to their creation? — Josh Charles
It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living. — Sinclair Lewis
I cannot believe in a God who has neither humor nor common sense. — W. Somerset Maugham
Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself. — Peter O'Toole
Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any… — James Madison
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men for… — Christopher Hitchens
If this is your God, he's not very impressive. He has so many psychological problems; he's so insecure. He demands worship every seven days. He… — Gene Roddenberry
The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating… — Armand Salacrou
I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster. — Henry David Thoreau
It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of… — Galen Strawson
Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question. — Johannes Kepler
None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles occur only in… — Ernest Renan
The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to… — Thomas Paine

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