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atheist criterion success
It is only the atheist who adopts success as the criterion of right Robert Lewis
atheist became hated seemed time
I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick. Julia Sweeney
atheist drama struggle
It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama. Richard P. Feynman
atheist philosophy atheism
A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one. Richard K. Morgan
atheist understanding religion
Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it. Richard Dawkins
atheist powerful islands
Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that they had evolved and dispersed from the site of their evolution?
atheist atheism bother
We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.
atheist impact political
The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo word carrying frissons of hysterical phobia. Critical mass may be harder to achieve than with some non-confrontational euphemism, but if we did achieve it with the dread word atheist, the political impact would be all the greater.
atheist believe teeth
The list of things about which we strictly have to be agnostic doesn't stop at tooth fairies and celestial teapots. It is infinite. If you want to believe in a particular one of them - teapots, unicorns, or tooth fairies, Thor or Yahweh - the onus is on you to say why you believe in it. The onus is not on the rest of us to say why we do not. We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.
thinking
His thinking was a little off and too complicated. Michael Assael
thinking
I thought about him, but I was thinking more about the 2-for-1. Luke Ridnour
thinking media government
A lot of people are waking up to human history, but so many people have been conditioned by the government controlled media to think that it's cool not to care. Alex Jones
thinking unhappy unhealthy
After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealthy things. Sharon Stone
thinking
I went into this thinking it would be a long-term project.
thinking guarded
I think you have to be guarded but not closed off. AJ Michalka
thinking two wake-up
After two solid weeks of waking up in Damen's bed, wrapped in Damen's arms, you'd think I'd have grown used to it by now. But nope. Not even close. Though I could get used to it. I'd like to get used to it. Carl Jung
thinking missing always-thinking
I’m always thinking about what I’m missing. Even when I’m happy with what I have.
thinking dresses dress-code
I think I'm one of the illest dudes out with the dress code.
heaven strange eternity
Heaven must be populated with some rather strange creatures if all they lived for was to go to a place where they can strum harps for eternity. Anton LaVey
heaven silence silent
Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven." William Wordsworth
heaven choices earth
Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth. Rob Bell
heaven forgiving earth
When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.
heaven promise world
To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won’t be afraid of death because you’re experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world. Richard Rohr
heaven sides world
The cross [is] the ultimate statement of God's involvement in the world on this side of heaven. Tullian Tchividjian
heaven dumb ass
We probaly in hell already, our dumb asses not knowin, everybody kissin ass to go to heaven aint goin. Tupac Shakur
heaven looks hard
Heaven ain't hard to find; all you gotta do is look.
heaven done stairway-to-heaven
Dolly Parton's done 'Stairway to Heaven.' Anything's possible. Robert Plant