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Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!

A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread.

Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun!

A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts - a "bundle of facts." Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the "law" because they act in that way.

A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.

All Chaos was once yer kingdom; verily, held ye dominion over the entire Pentaverse, but today ye was sore afraid in dark coners, nooks, and sink holes.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.

All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.

All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again.

All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

All Gods were immortal.

All history shows that, in exact proportion as nations advance in civilisation, the accounts of miracles taking place among them become rarer and rarer, until at last they entirely cease.

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.

All it takes for America to become a theocracy is for nonbelievers to do nothing.

All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop?

All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.

... All questions concerning the rise of Christianity are one: How was it done? How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement from the edge of the Roman Empire dislodge classical paganism and become the dominant faith of Western civilization? Although this is the only question, it requires many answers - no one thing led to the triumph of Christianity.

All religion is slavery.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

All the events said to have been witnessed by John alone are omitted by John alone. This fact seems fatal either to the reality of the events in question or to the genuineness of the Fourth Gospel.

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

All three of our major religions in Britain ~ Christianity, Islam and Judaism - have a hateful idea at the very core. That idea is Exclusion: the "othering," if you like, of the unredeemed.

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States - and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!

All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.

Alright, let's admit it, we Jews killed Christ - but it was only for three days.

Almost all Europe, for many centuries, was inundated with blood, which was shed at the direct instigation or with the full approval of the ecclesiastical authorities.

Although I know of no reference to Christ ever commenting on scientific work, I do know that He said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Thus I am certain that, were He among us today, Christ would encourage scientific research as modern man's most noble striving to comprehend and admire His Father's handiwork. The universe as revealed through scientific inquiry is the living witness that God has indeed been at work.

... a local, indigenous, American bizarre-ity.

Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly.... But the scene is changed as you come homeward, and atheism or treason may be the names given in Britain to what would be reason and truth if asserted in China.

Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.

A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one sly falsehood. When one is detected, a thousand are suspected.

A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?

A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational terms.

A mere society form of Atheism.

Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.

Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.

Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?

A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.

An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.

An atheist is as religious as a theist.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.