Atheist Quotes - Page 25

• Whatever good you would do out of fear of punishment, or hope of reward hereafter, the Atheist would do simply because it is good; and being so, he would receive the far surer and more certain reward, springing from well-doing, which would constitute his pleasure, and promote his happiness.

  Ernestine Rose

  Punishment, Atheism, Rewards

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• It takes more faith to be an atheist than to believe in God.

  Ruth Graham

  Believe, Believe In God

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• In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I was professing atheism? To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled - that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.

  Simone Weil

  Believe, Order, Atheism

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.137, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.

  Edmund White

  Dark, Night, Long

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• I'm not scared of dying, because I'm an atheist. I won't even know I'm dead. You know why? Because I'll be fùckin' dead.

  Jim Jefferies

  Dying, Scared, Knows

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• What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?

  Herman Melville

  Kindness, Men, Principles

  Herman Melville (1857). “The Confidence-man: His Masquerade”, p.220

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• If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian.

  Douglas Adams

  Italian, Thinking, Catholic

  Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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• Atheists say no one can prove the existence of God but I say no one can disprove that God exists I see God in everything I feel his presence everywhere to me I know that he exists.

  Shane Harper

  Existence, Feels, Prove

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• I think it's perfectly consistent to say that I want my government to be operating for all faiths and all peoples, including atheists and agnostics, while also insisting that there are values tha tinform my politics that are appropriate to talk about.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Government, Want

  Interview with Cathleen Falsani, www.beliefnet.com. March 27, 2004.

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• I guess I'm an atheist. But I would say I have very good relationships with the priests that I grew up with. I was an altar boy growing up, and the men of God in my life have always been really lovely, intelligent, well-informed, kind men. So I feel very loyal to their beliefs as much as anything else.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Growing Up, Intelligent, Boys

  "Chris O'Dowd on How to Deal with a Hangover". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. August 1, 2014.

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• It seems to me that a Christian like myself is presented with major problems, but they're nothing like the problems of the atheist.

  John Lennox

  Christian, Problem, Seems

  Source: thinkingaboutcreation.blogspot.com

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• All human beings are moral beings. So, certainly there are alliances. We are in the countries, that are secular states, and we obey its laws. I think we must recognize that common moral base. But in alliances we must always be careful just of what level the alliance is perceived. I will go and lecture to an atheist society, for example, but I will not lecture for them, because I am not an atheist. You see the difference.

  John Lennox

  Country, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.christiantelegraph.com

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• Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Believe In God

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.60, A&C Black

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• In His boundless love God permits the atheist to live.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Permit, Boundless

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, North Atlantic Books

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• The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first. As certain religions of the world say that a man who does not believe in a Personal God outside of himself is an atheist, so the Vedanta says, a man who does not believe in himself is an atheist. Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Believe, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2017). “Vedanta: Voice of Freedom”, p.353, Vedanta Society of St. Louis

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• There will never be peace until God's house and God's people are given their rightful place of leadership at the top of the world. How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top. .... There is absolutely no way that government can operate successfully unless led by godly men and women operating under the laws of the God of Jacob

  Pat Robertson

  Religious, Godly, Men

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• Being a pastor for 20 years I realized that the labels, agnostic, atheist, believer, everybody's human and everybody wants to know what kind of universe we're living in, and everybody's living according to a story.

  Rob Bell

  Years, Want, Labels

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Mean, Thinking

  "Christopher Hitchens On Mother Theresa". Free Inquiry magazine, Volume 16, Number 4, www.webpages.uidaho.edu.

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• I profess no belief in God, which by definition is true, especially if we take the accepted definition of God. But to be an atheist is to also have a belief, and have a system, and I don't know that I like that either.

  George Carlin

  Definitions, Belief, Accepted

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• The logic of freedom of religion implies freedom to be an atheist, even though, from a historical perspective, this has not been accepted in the Muslim world.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Perspective, Historical, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I consider myself a person who comes from a Muslim culture. In any case, I would not say that I'm an atheist. So I'm a Muslim who associates historical and cultural identification with this religion.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Historical, Culture, Identification

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot retreat to the comforts of atheism.

  Martin Walser

  Everyday, Atheism, Comfort

  "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.

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• Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

  Voltaire

  Death, Believe, Dying

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• Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

  Francis Bacon

  Heart, Men, Atheism

  Francis Bacon, Brian Vickers (1996). “The Major Works”, p.371, Oxford University Press, USA

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• As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen [Muslims] ... it is declared ... that no pretext arising from religious opinion shall ever product an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.... The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.

  John Adams

  Christian, Country, Religious

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