Atheist Quotes

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.

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

He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him).

I don't personally have enough faith to be an atheist.

How to trap an atheist: Serve him a fine meal, then ask him if he believes there is a cook.

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

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame -- Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support

By night an atheist half believes in God.

It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

I am atheist in a very religious mould.

I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.

An atheist is as religious as a theist.

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

I am a daylight atheist.

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere

What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.

We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.

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

I defy my honored opponents to give me the name of a single man imprisoned in the United States, Great Britain, or West Germany for being an atheist. But in former communist countries, millions of our Christian brothers and sisters in faith have passed through jails or been killed. Who has fought for freedom and obtained it -- atheists or Christians?

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Truth to me was dead, God had never lived, life was full of pain, and death was the end of life. As a young Atheist, I sincerely believed that man had created God to fill the gaps in knowledge that would never be spanned by experience, reason, or science. In 1983 the God who pursues those who deny him interrupted my existence, he captured my soul with raw love. Two decades later, God's tangible friendship still amazes me. To deny his existence I'd have to first deny my own.

The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creature;

But still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid feature:Yet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended.

Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf. We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?

I've been an atheist since I was nine years old.

And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?

I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.

I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation.

If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

By night an atheist half believes in a God.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

The existence of a single atheist does not disprove the existence of God.

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.

To you, I'm an atheist. To God, I'm the loyal opposition.

I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.