Atheism Quote by Taylor Caldwell Download Open image “The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.” — Taylor Caldwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheism Devastated Eternity Ideas Memories Memory Refuge
It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian. — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
For years, I was quite a militant atheist. I wanted to burn down all the churches or turn them into second-hand record emporiums. — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism into a… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
When I had forgotten God, yet I then found He had not forgotten me. Even then He did by His Spirit apply the merits… — Susanna Wesley Copy Share Image
The most profound memory I have from my childhood is burning down my house at 6 years old. — Black Thought Copy Share Image
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Atheism became the salvation of the wise and it was common knowledge that if God is for you then reality was against you. Among… — C.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
Death took me to a place where time no longer separated the earth. A place where I could finally listen to God and he… — Carl A Dixon Copy Share Image
It was my misfortune-or salvation-to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever,… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
“It's a funny thing about love: you don't need to have it returned to love somebody. Loving's enough. -- A Prologue to Love ” — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
“What manner of men had lived in those days...who had so eagerly surrendered their sovereignty for a lie and a delusion? Why had they been so anxious to believe that the government could solve problems for them which had been pridefully solved, many times over, by their fathers? Had their characters become so weak and debased, so craven and emasculated,… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share
“Then, my sweet, you are still an innocent, and I am amazed. Lies are far more potent than the truth, and far ore dangerous.… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
“Forests, hills, mountains, rivers, and green streams had no protection in the face of rapacity.” — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
Man was the outlaw, the rebel, the distorted shape that scarred the earth, the voice that silenced the music of Eden, the hand that raised up obscenities and blasphemies. Man was the pariah-dog, the moral leper in this translucent mirror of Heaven. He was the muddier of crystal waters, the despoiler of forests, the murderer of the innocent, the challenger… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share
There is no solid satisfaction in any career for a woman like myself. There is no home, no true freedom, no hope, no joy, no expectation for tomorrow, no contentment. I would rather cook a meal for a man and bring him his slippers and feel myself in the protection of his arms than have all the citations and awards… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart and therefore you can act on it, you have completely justified the 9/11 bombers. You have justified Charlie Manson. If it's true for you, why isn't it true for them? Why are you different? If you… — Penn Jillette Copy Share
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image