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In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called "Objections to Astrology" and asked me to endorse it. I struggled with his wording, and in the end found myself unable to sign, not because I thought astrology has any validity whatever, but because I felt (and still feel) that the tone of the statement was authoritarian.

In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.

In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it was somewhat marred by the sad sincerity of his conviction that although some are foredoomed to perdition, others are predestined to salvation.

In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the world. I would say that much on the subject with my last breath.

In the theater you create a moment, but in that moment, there is a touch, a twinkle of eternity. And not just eternity, but community. . . . That connection is a sense of life for me.

In this climate - with belief in guardian angels and creationism becoming commonplace - making fun of religion is as risky as burning a flag in an American Legion hall.

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).

In this world him who does not abandon himself the Almighty will not desert. Him who helps himself will the Almighty always also help; He will show him the way by which he can gain his rights, his freedom, and therefore his future.

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.

... inventions and purely human institutions.

I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.

I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.

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

I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not.

I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.

I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending.

I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or as anything else you choose. We know that the price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that they might some day force theirs on us.

I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?

I regret my disbelief in God.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

I say if you're going to go for the Angel bullshit you might as well go for the Zombie package as well.

Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?

I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now.

I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.

It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team.

I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.

It degrades from the equal rank of Citizens all those whose opinions in Religion do not bend to those of the Legislative authority. Distant as it may be in its present form from the Inquisition, it differs from it only in degree.

It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy.

It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least have verified that message by his own signature. Is it not wonderful that not one word was written by Christ?

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

It has been petrified into a slavery of thought and sentiment, as intolerant superiority on the part of the few and an intolerable burden on the part of the many.

It does not seem to me that the evidence concerning the being of a God, and concerning immortality, is such as to enable us to assert anything in regard to either of these topics.

I think the Constitution has been upheld. I think they made the right decision.

I think it's a bit excessive.

I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.

I think I stand where that man stands.

I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.

I think that if anyone bothered to take a survey, they would find a sharp decline in atheism during the winters in Cleveland, Ohio.

I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.

It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

It is accepted as an axiom by all Americans that the civil power ought to be not only neutral and impartial as between different forms of faith, but ought to leave these matters entirely on one side, regarding them no more than it regards the artistic or literary pursuits of the citizens.

It is a conspicuous fact in our modern Christian society that as a result and cumulation of our partriarchal development, the woman does not belong to herself.... Man has made her a perpetual minor.

It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.

It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.

It is as clear as the sun and as evident as the day that there is no God and that there can be none.