Atheist Quote by Elizabeth Kostova

Atheists are pious people.

— Max Stirner

“Our primeval ancestors were by no means atheistic: they raised temples and altars and offered the requisite terrified obsequies and sacrifices. Their religion was…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The irony behind the Church's disdain for the practice is that European Catholics have used saintly relics and bones as intermediaries for more than…

— Caitlin Doughty

“The challenge facing atheists is how to reverse the process of religious colonization: how to separate ideas and rituals from the religious institutions which…

— Alain de Botton

If all the ancient sacred writings had been preserved, some would be found to be heretical.

— Nachman of Breslov

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did…

— Anonymous

“Christians who give themselves as living sacrifices and offer their worship in this way are people with a high standard of discipline. They are…

— R.C. Sproul

While we sometimes feel and have felt in days that are past and gone, to complain because we meet with oppression, persecution, and affliction,…

— Wilford Woodruff

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

— Mark Twain

I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Certainly it's a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don't seem as bad as the Dominion histories make them out…

— Robert Charles Wilson

I'll long remember the crestfallen look of a pious student when I told him the faculty of a divinity school he planned to attend…

— Gary Sloan