Atheist Quotes - Page 29

• Would the atheist continue such, let him beware how he admits Love into his breast: for God will surely come along with him.

  Richard B. Garnett

  Atheism, Gods Will, Breasts

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• I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me.

  Natalie Angier

  Powerful, Believe, Atheism

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• According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something I'm listening to God.

  Pete Seeger

  Eye, Thinking, Listening

  "Pete Seeger's Session". Beliefnet Interview, www.beliefnet.com. August 2006.

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• That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.

  Aubrey Menen

  Thinking, Religion, Society

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• My dog is an atheist: he no longer believes in me.

  Francois Cavanna

  Dog, Believe, Atheism

  "L'almanach-agenda de Cavanna 1985". Book by François Cavanna, Paris: Belfond, 1985.

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• (...) contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion for atheists. (...) For many art world insiders and art aficionados of other kinds, concept-driven art is a kind of existencial channel through which they bring meaning to their lives. It demands leaps of faith, but it rewards the believer with a sense of consequence. Moreover, just as churches and other ritualistic meeting places serve a social function, so art events generate a sense of community around shared interests

  Sarah Thornton

  Art, Community, Church

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• We can never put enough distance between ourselves and what we love. To think that God is, is still to think of him as present; this is a thought according to our measure, destined only to console us. It is much more fitting to think that God is not, just as we must love him purely enough that we could be indifferent to the fact that he should not be. It is for this reason that the atheist is closer to God than the believer.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Distance, Thinking, Facts

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• As [The Nation columnist Katha] Pollitt points out, when one starts looking beneath the surface of things and adding together the out-front atheists with the indifferent nonbelievers, you end up with a much larger group of people than Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Unitarians put together.

  Natalie Angier

  Buddhist, People, Atheism

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• Atheists who keep asking for evidence of God's existence are like a fish in the ocean wanting evidence of water.

  Ray Comfort

  Ocean, Water, Asking

  FaceBook post by Ray Comfort from Feb 21, 2013

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• We are redeemed one man at a time. There is no family pass ticket or park hopping pass to life. One ticket - one at a time. Man doesn't vanquish hatred or bigotry. The target keeps moving. From the blacks to the Irish; atheists to Christians. But as always there are a few leaders: Ben Franklin, John Quincy Adams, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Fredrick Douglas, Booker T Washington, Ghandi and Martin Luther King. They know that the march toward freedom never ends, man must be ever vigilant and pray less with his lips and more with his legs.

  Glenn Beck

  Christian, Kings, Moving

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• There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves.

  Bruno Dumont

  People, Saint, Needs

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• Atheists often denounce Christianity as harsh and negative. But in reality it offers a much more positive view of the human person than any competing religion or worldview. It is so appealing that adherents of other worldviews keep free-loading the parts they like best.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Reality, Views, Negative

  Nancy Pearcey (2015). “Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes”, p.226, David C Cook

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• It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of goodness. How could a spiritless, soul-less, cross-less, Godless universe become the center of faith, purity, sacrifice, and martyrdom? How can decency be the decent thing if there is no God? Since God is love, why should we be surprised that want of it should end in pain, hate, broken hearts, and war?

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Pain, Hate, War

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• I am a professed atheist, until I find myself in serious circumstances. Then I quickly fall on my knees, in my mind if not literally, and I say : 'Please God, save me from this.'

  Don McCullin

  Fall, Mind, Knees

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• The atheist suicide bomber is unfaithfully committed to his mission

  Dean Cavanagh

  Suicide, Bombers, Missions

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• Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question. How can the apologists for the church exemption answer it?

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Church, Answers, Pay

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• Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality - it's just a different morality than the loud voices of the Christian morality.... I can't tell you how many films I've turned down because there was an absence of morality. And I don't mean that from any sort of Judeo-Christian-Muslim point of view. I'm not saying they're wrong and can't be made. But, fundamentally, I'm such a humanist that I can't bear to make films that make us feel humanity is more dark than it is light.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Christian, Strong, Buddhist

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• I wouldn't call myself an atheist. I neither deny nor accept that there is a God... So I do not laugh at people who believe in God. But I do not necessarily believe in God - nor deny that there could be one.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Believe, People, Laughing

  "One Man's View of the World". Book by Lee Kuan Yew, 2013.

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• I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met around the pile; The multitude was gazing silently; And as the culprit passed with dauntless mien, Tempered disdain in his unaltering eye, Mixed with a quiet smile, shone calmly forth; The thirsty fire crept round his manly limbs; His resolute eyes were scorched to blindness soon; His death-pang rent my heart! the insensate mob Uttered a cry of triumph, and I wept. Weep not, child! cried my mother, for that man Has said, 'There is no God.'

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Mother, Children, Eye

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.429, JHU Press

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• Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.

  H. L. Mencken

  Home, Atheism, Methodists

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• Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Effort, Atheism, Looks

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• I'm against anything atheists represent because I believe in God.

  Alvin Holmes

  Believe, Scary, I Believe

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• [People of faith must] reassure them [atheists] that we share with them the core values of America, that our faith is not inconsistent with their freedom and our mission is not one of intolerance, but one of love.... I stand before you today as a witness to the goodness of God. For me, like you and like my running mate Al Gore, faith provided a foundation, order and purpose in my life.

  Joe Lieberman

  Running, Order, America

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• I will be in Orlando during the atheist convention to do my best to counter the assaults upon Christ of the atheists. I also plan on running a large newspaper ad in the Orlando Sentinel addressed to the atheists and warning the Orlando area of the atheists' vile plans for their children.

  Bill Murray

  Running, Children, Scary

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• Atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair was murdered. Jon Murray and Robin Murray-O'Hair were also murdered by individuals involved with the atheist organization.

  William J. Murray

  Hair, Organization, Leader

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