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The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
-Jean Rostand
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Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown His own?
-Bertrand Russell
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Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of -- the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.
-Olive Schreiner
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I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
-George Bernard Shaw
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The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
-George Bernard Shaw
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
-Captain J. G. Stedman
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First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors, and where they separate, depend upon it, 'Tis for no other cause but quietness sake.
-Laurence Sterne
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When ever a person talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not their reason, but their passions, which have got the better of their beliefs. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors; and when they separate, depend on it that it is for the sake of peace and quiet.
-Laurence Sterne
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We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.
-Sir William Temple
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An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
-Francis Thompson
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How to trap an atheist: Serve him a fine meal, then ask him if he believes there is a cook.
-Source Unknown
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An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain all that he can't see.
-Source Unknown
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Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?
-John Updike
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This, I submit, is the freedom of a real education, of learning how to be well-adjusted. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.
Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship -- be it JC or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles -- is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It's been codified as myths, proverbs, clich
-David Foster Wallace, Kenyon Commencement Address (2005), May 21, 2005
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You do not need the bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate.
-Richard A. Weatherwax
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
-Simone Weil
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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
-Steven Weinberg
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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I defy my honored opponents to give me the name of a single man imprisoned in the United States, Great Britain, or West Germany for being an atheist. But in former communist countries, millions of our Christian brothers and sisters in faith have passed through jails or been killed. Who has fought for freedom and obtained it -- atheists or Christians?
-Richard Wurmbrand
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By night an atheist half believes in God.
-Edward Young
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Books about Atheism
