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There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.

There are good reasons to believe in God, including the existence of mathematical principles and order in creation. They are positive reasons, based on knowledge, rather than default assumptions based on a temporary lack of knowledge.

There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.

There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.

There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.

There are no atheist in foxholes.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.

There are parodies of non-existent things.

The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and simply greed.

The reason why so many sects hang around airports looking for converts: they know that people there are at their most vulnerable and perplexed, and ready to accept any kind of guidance.

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. One has to pay something. A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it.

Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.

There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The other is a system of speculations about the unseen and the unknowable, which the human mind has no power to grasp or explain, and these speculations vary with every sect, age, and type of civilization. No one knows any more of what lies beyond our sphere of action than thou and I, and we know nothing.

There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.

There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but also to commence new practices, and set the example of more enlightened conduct, and better taste and sense in human life.

There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel as it is from the intrepid assertion and vindication of truth.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

There is joy in the search for knowledge about the universe in all its manifestations.

There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies. Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.

There is no book which tells of a more infamous monster than the Old Testament, with its Jehovah of murder and cruelty and revenge, unless it be the New Testament, which arms its God with hell, and extends his outrages throughout all eternity!

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

There is no god higher than truth.

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God; for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires no advocates to plead for men.

There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that "remembered" a wholly unreal past. There is no logically necessary connection between events at different times; therefore nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

There is no more harm in adultery than in rubbing one's hands together.

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.

There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.

There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermingle with religion. Its least interference with it would be a most flagrant usurpation.

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

There is no way you can harmonize neo-Darwinism and Christianity.