Absent Quote by N. T. Wright

A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.

— Honore de Balzac

“Pantheists don’t believe in a supernatural God at all, but use the word God as a non-supernatural synonym for Nature, or for the Universe,…

— Richard Dawkins

Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God.

— Charles Bradlaugh

Atheism is the absence of a belief in a god, nothing more. If the theist wishes to draw monumental implications from this lack of…

— George H. Smith

The definition of deism is the philosophical idea of God as a first cause of the universe, who lays down the laws of nature…

— Elizabeth S. Anderson

Atheism is the lack of belief in a god (or gods). It makes no claim. It merely rejects the claim that a god (or…

— Ricky Gervais

Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.

— Madame de Stael

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence…

— Peter Kreeft

Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.

— Chapman Cohen

“No atheism simply falls from heaven.”

— Eberhard Jüngel

There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other systems have…

— Thomas Paine

“Deists differ from pantheists in that the deist God is some kind of cosmic intelligence, rather than the pantheist’s metaphoric or poetic synonym for…

— Richard Dawkins