Atheism Quotes

You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable.

I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, "Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?"

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately.

I'm the world's least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you're not in love with.

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I have a belief in a narrative that is bigger than me, that is alive and I trust will work itself out.

If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

I'm still an atheist, thank God.

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

I'm a born-again atheist.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.