Famous Quotes about Atheism (42 Quotations)

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

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

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.

If you can't believe in God, chances are your God is too small.

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

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

It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of — the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

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

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

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

There are no atheists in foxholes.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians.

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.