Atheist Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• I am a person of faith. I'm certainly not an atheist or an agnostic and I see some divine force somewhere.

  John E. Jones III

  Agnostic, Divine, Force

  Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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• Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

  Voltaire

  Death, Believe, Dying

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• Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

  Heywood Broun

  If There Is A God, Religion, Atheism

  "Collected Edition of Heywood Broun". Book by Heywood Broun (p. 26), 1941.

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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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• Just the idea that we, these little collections of atoms and molecules, are part of the world, but a part that can look at the rest of the world and figure it out in a self-referential way, is kind of breathtaking.

  Sean M. Carroll

  Self, Ideas, Molecules

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• Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ.

  William Temple

  Knowing, Christianity, Found

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• What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster? To see rare effects, and no cause ; a motion, without a mover ; a circle, without a centre ; a time, without an eternity ; a second, without a first : these are things so against philosophy and natural reason, that he must be a beast in understanding who can believe in them. The thing formed, says that nothing formed it ; and that which is made is, while that which made it is not, This folly is infinite.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Art, Philosophy, Believe

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• Today secular faith is ebbing, and it is the apostles of unbelief who are left stranded on the beach.

  John Gray

  Beach, Today, Secular

  "The atheist delusion" by John Gray, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2008.

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• England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

  Voltaire

  Two, Religion, Atheism

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• There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Light, Miracle

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.54

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• I would not say that ethical behavior is not possible for the atheist or agnostic. It is. A couple of pretty good examples are Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre. However, I will have to say that if we take the human lot as a whole, these two men must be seen as exceptions.

  Huston Smith

  Couple, Men, Agnostic

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• The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.

  Sam Harris

  Reality, Fantasy, Neighbor

  "There is No God (And You Know It)" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2005.

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• A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

  Voltaire

  Men, Deities

  Voltaire (1769). “Letters addressed to his Highness the Prince of *****, containing comments on the writings of the most eminent authors, who have been accused of attacking the Christian Religion”, p.51

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• Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Men, Agnostic

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.142, Penguin

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• To an even moderately sophisticated and well-read person it should come as no surprise that any religion at all has its hidden as well as its obvious beauties and is capable of profound and impressive interpretations. What is deeply objectionable about most of these interpretations is that they allow the believer to say Yes while evading any No.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Profound, Surprise, Sophisticated

  "The Faith of a Heretic" by Walter Kaufmann, 1959.

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• If we cannot find our way to a time when most of us are willing to admit that, at the very least, we are not sure whether or not God wrote some of our books, then we need only count the days to Armageddon-because God has given us far many more reasons to kill one another than to turn the other cheek.

  Sam Harris

  Book, Way, Needs

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own moral judgment (the dog) is driven by our own moral reasoning (the tail). The second illusion can be called the wag-theother-dog's-tail illusion: In a moral argument, we expect the successful rebuttal of an opponent's arguments to change the opponent's mind. Such a belief is like thinking that forcing a dog's tail to wag by moving it with your hand will make the dog happy.

  Sam Harris

  Dog, Moving, Believe

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• Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.

  William Congreve

  Pimp, Atheism, Lawyer

  William Congreve (1785). “Love for Love: A Comedy”, p.8

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