Quotes about atheist
atheist religion unjust
Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established. Ludwig Feuerbach
atheist men mirrors
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey. Malcolm de Chazal
atheist thinking atheism
Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist. Mahatma Gandhi
atheist believe fighting
It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists. Mahatma Gandhi
atheist world doe
Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from? Gilbert K. Chesterton
atheist believe men
When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything. Gilbert K. Chesterton
atheist manage
Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist. Gilbert K. Chesterton
atheist men empires
Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred. Gilbert K. Chesterton
atheist men logic
I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification. Gilbert K. Chesterton
atheist atheism argument
There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life. Gilbert K. Chesterton
atheist optimism miracle
Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle. Gilbert K. Chesterton
atheist atheism not-interested
The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism. Gilbert K. Chesterton
atheist bigots
There is no bigot like the atheist. Gilbert K. Chesterton
atheist atheism negative
Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative. Gilbert K. Chesterton
atheist religion atheism
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything. Gilbert K. Chesterton
atheist vices triumph
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind. John Dryden
atheist character escaping
The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists . John Maynard Keynes
atheist wall men
The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken. John Lothrop Motley
atheist promise atheism
Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all. John Locke
atheist heaven religion
Imagine there's no heaven... it's easy if you try. John Lennon
atheist sky people
Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today... John Lennon
atheist fun believe
I'm an atheist. But I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God. We celebrate pretty much every religion in our family with the kids. They love it, and when they say, 'Are we Jewish?' or 'Are we Catholic?' I say, 'Well, I'm not, but you can choose when you're 18. But isn't this fun that we do seders and the Advent calendar?' Jodie Foster
atheist people
People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist. Jodie Foster
atheist if-there-is-a-god remember
If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence. George MacDonald
atheist father heaven
God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven. George MacDonald
atheist men world
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world. John Burroughs
atheist real believe
The real heretic is not the atheist or agnostic (who are often decent people) but those who murmur "it doesn't matter what you believe, as long as it makes you feel good." This turns religion into a subjective matter, like taste in furnishings, and robs theology of its claim to ultimate truth. Sydney J. Harris
atheist atheism
Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette. Ray Comfort
atheist
I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist. Ray Comfort
atheist believe intelligent
Atheistic evolution isn't an intelligent belief, as atheists would have the black community believe. Ray Comfort
atheist hate philosophical
Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists, like the painting experts hated the painter, hate God because He does exist Ray Comfort
atheist believe important
It's important to understand that an atheist is someone who believes the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything. Some fundamental atheists will deny this by trying to redefine 'nothing' as being 'something,' because such a thought makes them look like a fool, which is precisely what the Bible says that they are Ray Comfort
atheist flower people
Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the warm sun, every taste that touched her tongue told her that there was a God who created all things. Jodie Foster shouldn't therefore be surprised that people are surprised that she's an atheist. Ray Comfort