160 Christian Atheist Quotes

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Famous Christian Atheist Quotes

It seems to me that a Christian like myself is presented with major problems, but they're nothing like the problems of the atheist. — John Lennox

The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry. - Peter Kreeft

The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry. — Peter Kreeft

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion. — Albert Einstein

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist. — Albert Camus

Thank God I'm an atheist. — Luis Bunuel

All thinking men are atheists. — Ernest Hemingway

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident. - Francis Thompson

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident. — Francis Thompson

The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist. — Julia Kristeva

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

I’m not a religious person; I would call myself an atheist. I don’t have a good story behind it, I’m just reasonable. — Anthony Jeselnik

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

Christians are like a thirteen year old kid who still believes in Santa. — Jim Jefferies

The Christian is a person who makes it easy for others to believe in God. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world, and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level. — William F. Buckley, Jr.

Atheism is a fairy story for people afraid of the Light. - John Lennox

Atheism is a fairy story for people afraid of the Light. — John Lennox

Christian Quotes

Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge. — Charles Schumer

A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ. — Jonathan Edwards

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle

If God is for us, who can be against us? — Paul the Apostle

Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink. — Dwight L. Moody

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps. — Saint Augustine

Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition. — Immortal Technique

Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I don't give a damn what queers do, and don't give a damn what Christians do. Just get the hell out of my way because I want to live my life and I don't want the government sucking 60% of my wages off my ass. — Alex Jones

If our children have the background of a godly, happy home and this unshakable faith that the Bible is indeed the Word of God, they will have a foundation that the forces of hell cannot shake. — Ruth Graham

Christian Theology Quotes

Any theology that is indifferent to the theme of liberation is not Christian theology. — James H. Cone

A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture. — Alan Hirsch

What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour. — Walter Martin

To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image and emotions were not shared by the apostolic church. — R. C. Sproul

To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place. A revelation of the Holy Spirit in one glorious flash of inward illumination would teach you more of Jesus than five years in a theological seminary. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian has a theology. The issue, then, is not, dowe want to have a theology? That's a given. The real issue is, do we have a sound theology.? Do we embrace true or false doctrine? — R. C. Sproul

The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split that opened up between theology and spirituality at the end of the Middle Ages. — Hans Urs von Balthasar

The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion. — Thomas Paine

In fact, most of the changes found in early Christian manuscripts have nothing to do with theology or ideology. Far and away the most changes are the result of mistakes pure and simple slips of the pen, accidental omissions, inadvertent additions, misspelled words, blunders of one sort or another. — Bart D. Ehrman

Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism. — Oswald Spengler

Christian Christmas Quotes

A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on — John Stott

For Christians, as for all people of faith, reflection, meditation and prayer help us to renew ourselves in God's love, as we strive daily to become better people. The Christmas message shows us that this love is for everyone. There is no one beyond its reach. — Queen Elizabeth II

If we could condense all the truths of Christmas into only three words, these would be the words: 'God with us.' — John F. MacArthur

Rejoice, that the immortal God is born, so that mortal men may live in eternity. — Jan Hus

Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again. — George Whitefield

You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face and tell him you have received his Christmas gift. — John R. Rice

Thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall save his people from their sins. - Leonard Ravenhill

Thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall save his people from their sins. — Leonard Ravenhill

Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries. — George W Truett

Peace on earth, and mercy mild God and sinners reconciled. — Charles Wesley

Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, ‘What else could this mean?’ — Shannon Alder

Religion Christian Quotes

The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people. — Martin Luther

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. — Billy Sunday

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. — Rick Warren

If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified. — Leonard Ravenhill

The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed. — Hudson Taylor

My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the pilgrim's Ka'ba, And the tablets of the Torah, And the book of the Koran. I follow the religion of Love: Whatever way love's camel takes, That is my religion, my faith. — Ibn Arabi

Enter into the promises of God. It is your inheritance. You will do more in one year if you are really filled with the Holy Ghost than you could do in fifty years apart from Him. — Smith Wigglesworth

Before God could bring me to this place He has broken me a thousand times. — Smith Wigglesworth

I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God's creational intentions. — John Wesley

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. — C. S. Lewis

Daily Atheist Quotes

You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend. — Blaise Pascal

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. — George Bernard Shaw

A cult is a religion with no political power. - Tom Wolfe

A cult is a religion with no political power. — Tom Wolfe

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion. - Jon Stewart

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion. — Jon Stewart

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily. Opposition to godliness is atheism in profession and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors. — Isaac Newton

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. — Charles Bukowski

It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. — George William Foote

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

So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk. — Thomas A. Edison

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

Buddhism And Christianity Quotes

I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can. — Thomas Merton

Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist. — Bo Burnham

I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism and Jungianism-whic h are all derivatives of the big religion of patriarchy. Sin against the infrastructure itself! — Mary Daly

The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity. — Victor Hugo

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. — Buddha

Whether you look at Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism, wherever a distinction of sex is made, it is to the advantage of men. If you think of religions as if they were novels, the authors are men, and so are the major characters. — Katha Pollitt

Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it's simply meaningless. We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. — Buddha

I believe that everybody has the right to believe what they want to believe and to knock somebody's faith and religion is foolish, whatever it may be - Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism. — Nicolas Cage

I think Christianity is the same as Buddhism and Hinduism - whenever a religion begins to say that these are the things you have to do to be loved by God, you have a religion. — Erwin McManus

Christianity And Islam Quotes

The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer. — Barack Obama

The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam — Barack Obama

Islam doesn't promote violence or peace. Islam is just a religion, and like every religion in the world, it depends on what you bring to it. If you're a violent person, your Islam, your Judaism, your Christianity, your Hinduism, is going to be violent. — Reza Aslan

We're not attacking Islam but Islam has attacked us. The God of Islam is not the same God. It's a different God, and I believe it [Islam] is a very evil and wicked religion. — Franklin Graham

Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost and Judaism has never had. — Bernard Lewis

Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation — Barack Obama

We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation. — Barack Obama

Islam has always been part of America — Barack Obama

Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs. — Carroll Quigley

The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets. — Feisal Abdul Rauf

Positive Atheism Quotes

I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me. — Isaac Newton

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

I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity. — Lucretia Mott

The Pope? How many divisions has he got? — Joseph Stalin

Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds. — Baruch Spinoza

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I write ... in order to help ensure that the teeming millions in the New World, for whose sins Christ gave His life, do not continue to die in ignorance, but rather are brought to knowledge of God and thereby saved. — Bartolome de las Casas

Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination. — Margaret E. Knight

Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change. — Marquis De Sade

When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of the world, God hath ever ... made his Garden a Wildernesse. — Roger Williams

Christian Prayer Quotes

If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice? — David Livingstone

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time. — John Piper

Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God. — Arthur W. Pink

You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests. — Saint John Chrysostom

Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him. — Hudson Taylor

We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend upon material success . . . but on Jesus alone. — Frances Xavier Cabrini

We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results. — R. A. Torrey

Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things! — Andrew Murray

Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer. — Charles Grandison Finney

I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming. — George Muller

Christian Friends Quotes

God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves. — Saint John Chrysostom

There are so many people who want to get together to have a great prayer meeting or other great gatherings. Friend, have you ever tried being alone? That is where God will meet with you. Take the Word of God and go off alone with Him. It will do you a lot of good. — J. Vernon McGee

I went to a psychologist friend and said if 500 people claimed to see Jesus after he died, it was just a hallucination. He said hallucinations are an individual event. If 500 people have the same hallucination, that's a bigger miracle than the resurrection. — Lee Strobel

Remember: In the end, you're not living to impress your friends or your relatives or your coworkers. All of life is for Jesus. — Chris Tomlin

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart. — Thomas Jefferson

True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him. — Jonathan Edwards

Make a plan now to keep a daily appointment with God. The enemy is going to tell you to set it aside, but you must carve out the time. If you're too busy to meet with the Lord, friend, then you are simply too busy — Charles R. Swindoll

Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in their sin. — Mark Dever

Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him. — Ellen G. White

The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. — James David Vance

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More Christian Atheist Quotes

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists. - Albert Einstein quote

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists. — Albert Einstein

If you are a Christian, you are in danger. If you decided to abandon your faith and become an atheist, you also are to be liquidated according to their concept. You are in danger if you decide to become a Muslim. It is not going to save you anyway because they believe traditional Islam is hostile to their goals. — Vladimir Putin

Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist. — C. S. Lewis

The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy which is cordial drivel, mediocrity served up sweet. There is nothing that so insidiously displaces the majestic as cordiality. — Soren Kierkegaard

Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy - the most sublime and benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man - endeavored to crush your well-earned & well-deserved fame. — Thomas Jefferson

It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian. — Lee Strobel

We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake. — Catherine Fahringer

As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was turned upside down 35 years ago by reading C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity. — Francis Collins

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. — Richard Dawkins

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world. — Voltaire

The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews. — Jerry Falwell

Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books. — Hemant Mehta

There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages. — Richard Lederer

Christian families are under attack in America! The Communists, Masons, Atheists, Humanists, Evolutionists, and other Godless sickos want to destroy the family. Parents beware; the government wants your child! — Lester Roloff

Man created God in his own image. — Ludwig Feuerbach

If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease! — Clark Adams

If there were no God, there would be no atheists. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Satre found atheism 'cruel', Camus 'dreadful', and Nietzsche 'maddening'. Atheists who consistently try to live without God tend to commit suicide or go insane. Those who are inconsistent live on the ethical or aesthetic shadow of Christian truth while they deny the reality that made the shadow. — Norman Geisler

Those Christians who are very strict in their observances, think a good deal more of the Sabbath than of man, a great deal more of the Bible than of the truth, and ten times more of their creed than of the will of God. Of course, if they heard anyone utter such words as I have just written, they would say he was and atheist. — George Macdonald

Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds. — Neal Stephenson

Christians must understand the nature of the change that has occurred in our culture. No longer do the secularists just mock Christians from afar. They are now actively campaigning to indoctrinate children in an anti-God philosophy--to teach them to be secularists and atheists. — Ken Ham

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people — Jesse Ventura

The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind. — Thomas Paine

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion. — Steven Weinberg

I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning. — Benjamin Franklin

Atheists are like wild feral dogs wih no master. But Christians are like loving dogs with a giving and loving master. Domesticated dogs will love you always, but Feral wild dogs HAVE to be put down. they are a danger to us all. — Roger Bacon

I am now convinced that children should not be subjected to the frightfulness of the Christian religion [...]. If the concept of a father who plots to have his own son put to death is presented to children as beautiful and as worthy of society's admiration, what types of human behavior can be presented to them as reprehensible? — Ruth Hurmence Green

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. — Mark Twain

I don't know anyone less Jesus like than Christians. — Bill Maher

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. — Steven Weinberg

Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity. — John Adams

I'm a Christian now. The things that drove me crazy growing up was how everyone works at fault-finding with different religions. The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snow boarding and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away. — Paul Walker

A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa. — Ricky Gervais

Ask a deeply religious Christian if he’d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don’t seem so bad lately. — Scott Adams

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God. — Tom Stoppard

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian. — Mark Twain

What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder. — Thomas Paine

Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. — Edward Gibbon

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable. — Plato

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. — James Madison

The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. — Frank Zappa

Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable. — C. S. Lewis

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