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• By night an atheist half-believes in God.

  Edward Young

  God, Atheist, Believe

  'The Complaint: Night Thoughts' (1742-5) 'Night 5' l. 176

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• It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

  Mark Twain

  Faith, Atheist, Believe

  Following the Equator ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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

  Heywood Broun

  Atheist, If There Is A God, Religion

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

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• I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Ideas, Religion

  Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr. (28 September 1949), from article by Michael R. Gilmore in Skeptic magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1997.

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• I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery, but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing.

  Allan Sandage

  God, Science, Order

  "Sizing up the Cosmos: An Astronomer's Quest" by John Noble Wilford, www.nytimes.com. March 12, 1991.

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• Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

  Epicurus

  Atheist, Omnipotence, If There Is A God

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• Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

  Epicurus

  Atheist, Faith Religion, Omnipotence

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• The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.

  Oswald Chambers

  Atheist, Attitude, Real

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.327, Discovery House

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• God exist whether or not men may choose to believe in Him. The reason why many people do not believe in God is not so much that it is intellectually impossible to believe in God, but because belief in God forces that thoughtful person to face the fact that he is accountable to such a God.

  Robert Alexander Crookston Laidlaw

  Atheist, Believe, Thoughtful

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• God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

  Andre Weil

  Math, Devil, Existence

  "Mathematical Circles Adieu: A Fourth Collection of Mathematical Stories and Anecdotes". Book by Howard Whitley Eves, 1977.

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  I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, God, Christian

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.

  Max Planck

  Atoms, Matter, Virtue

  "Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them". Book by Clifford Pickover, 2008.

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• I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances of science.

  Wernher von Braun

  Science, Origin Of Life, Design

  Wernher Von Braun (2007). “The Voice of Dr. Wernher Von Braun: An Anthology”, Collectors Guide Pub

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• A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Faith, Atheist, Godly

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• The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

  Douglas Adams

  Atheist, Faith Religion, Atheism

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

  Tom Stoppard

  Christian, Atheist, Reality

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Jumpers”, p.51, Faber & Faber

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• Why is there something rather than nothing?

  Frank Wilczek

  Faith And Reason, Anthropic Principle

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• I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it. Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.

  Marquis de Sade

  Believe, Thinking, Evil

  Marquis de Sade, David Coward (1999). “The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales”, p.127, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

  Epicurus

  God, Spiritual, Religious

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• God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separated us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?

  Blaise Pascal

  God, Distance, Games

  Pensees no. 680 (1658). Popularly known as "Pascal's wager."

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• And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

  Bertrand Russell

  Death, God, Spiritual

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.554, Psychology Press

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• In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Bible, Christ Consciousness, Bread Of Life

  N. Scott Momaday, Al Momaday (1969). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.7, UNM Press

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• My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Christian, Atheist

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Ideas, Atheism

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Attitude, Humility

  Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr., from article by Michael R. Gilmore in Skeptic magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1997), September 28, 1949.

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