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The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism (the claim that there is no God), but rather Gnosticism (the claim that God is known).

The People will not allow themselves to be changed into hogs by the Circes of Atheism. Their souls will flash indignation against their transformers. A day will come when they will see that they are impoverished under the pretext of being enriched; that, when they are robbed of their souls and of God, both their titles to liberty are stolen from them.

The place whereon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods. The word is now seldom used, except with reference to the sacrifice of their liberty and peace by a male and a female fool.

The piety of "having a personal relationship with Christ" ... is alien to the New Testament... but evangelicals elevate it to the shibboleth of salvation! Unless you have a personal relationship with Jesus, buster, one day you will be boiling in Hell. Sheesh! Talk about the fury of a personal savior scorned!

The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.

The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.

The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level mountains, and nobody doubts them.

The principle applies here, help yourselves and Almighty God will not deny you his assistance.

The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle.

The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right.

The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.

The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed.

The Queen of England is Defender of the Faith but the President of the United States is Defender of the Constitution, which defends all faiths.

The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.

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 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 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 a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

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

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 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 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 doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.

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 fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.