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.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

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.

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

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

To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man.

The atheist has no hope.

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.

An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.

How else can you fight God but to pretend He doesn't exist?

A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.

The worst moment for the athieist is when he feels thankful and has no one to thank.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. For the duel is deadly; and any agnostic who wishes to be anything more than a Nihilist must sympathize with one version of nature or the other.

To <b>you</b> I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.