Best 2951 quotes in «atheism quotes» category

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.

If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.

If God is a crutch, then atheism is a coma.

If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God.

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.

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

If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.

If god wanted people to believe in him, why'd he invent logic then?

If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.

If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.

If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.

If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern officers.

If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.

I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

I find that the whole weight of relieving human misery and distress falls on the shoulders of those Heretics and Infidels; and though great part of this distress has been occasioned by those ravening wolves' hopeful converts.

If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar.

If it is to be established that there is a God, then we have to have good grounds for believing that this is indeed so. Until and unless some such grounds are produced we have literally no reason at all for believing; and in that situation the only reasonable posture must be that of either the negative atheist or the agnostic. So the onus of proof has to rest on the proposition of theism.

If it were true that Christianity and science were incompatible, there would be no Christians who were respected scientists. If fact, about forty percent of professional natural scientists are practicing Christians, and many others are theists of other kinds. Fewer than thirty percent are atheists.

If I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet.

If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But a 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

If miracles be incredible, Christianity is false. If Christ wrought no miracles, then the Gospels are untrustworthy.

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.

If men do their best endeavours to free themselves from all errors, and yet fail of it through human frailty, so well I am persuaded of the goodness of God, that if in me alone should meet a confluence of all such errors of all the Protestants in the world that were thus qualified, I should not be so much afraid of them all, as I should be to ask pardon for them.

If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has not meant the laws of nature.

If my church attempted to influence me in a way which was improper or which affected adversely my responsibilities as a public servant sworn to uphold the Constitution, then I would reply to them that this was an improper action on their part. It was one to which I could not subscribe.

If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower.

If nothing we do matters... , then all that matters is what we do

If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary.

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.

If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image.

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?

If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist's assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical, since it is only a significant proposition that can be significantly contradicted.

If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over.

If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?

If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.

If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going ?

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.

If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.