Atheism Quote by George Eliot

“It holds almost universally in the history of the church, that until a doctrine has been fully discussed in a controversial way by men…

— William Cunningham

“Men tend to be more orthodox in belief. Their concern for the rules keeps a congregation from drifting toward mushy moral relativism.”

— David Murrow

“It need not seem at all strange that sin should so blind the mind, seeing that men’s particular natural tempers and dispositions will so…

— Jonathan Edwards

“The bothersome noise of religious talk grows irksome when laid upon the living score of discordant behavior. Talkative's”

— John Bunyan

“But for many modern liberal theologians (even if they do not say that God is dead), certain other things are dead. Because they do…

— Francis A. Schaeffer

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of…

— Bertrand Russell

Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or re-applies an old epithet. The thought…

— James Russell Lowell

Inasmuch as it is manifest from experience that if the Holy Bible, translated into the vulgar tongue, be indiscriminately allowed to every one, the…

— Pope Pius IV

“For such thoughts are accustomed to occur to men’s minds when God wants to punish sins; they regard God’s Word and absolute truth as…

— Martin Luther

Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy…

— Harper Lee

“If you could only speak the devil fair enough, he might save you the cost of the doctor. Such strange lingering echoes of the…

— George Eliot

The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows…

— Sophocles