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If it turns out that there is a God ... the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
— Woody Allen
A little or superficial knowledge may incline a man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth him back to religion.
— Anonymous
If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.
— Alan S. Kesselheim
You've got to be digging it while it's happening 'cause it just might be a one shot deal.
— Frank Zappa
I believe in steel swords, gold coins, and man's wits. ( ... ) And I believe there once were dragons. I've seen their skulls, after all.
— George R R Martin
Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant.
— Richard Dawkins
Revelation is God's way of telling humanity that he is afraid of their possibility; the possibility of one day being able to surpass even him.
— Lionel Suggs
Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.
— Cormac McCarthy
What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.
— Sam Harris
Religion is belief in someone else's experience. Spirituality is having your own experience. Atheism is no experience only measurement.
— Deepak Chopra
I took about a year to fully adjust. Like there's a death at the family or a divorce, you don't just snap your fingers and it's over.
— Dan Barker
Religion suits everyone's needs, believers, agnostics, atheists and god, just in case it exists
— Daya Kudari
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.
— A.J. Ayer
There are no atheists in foxholes isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.
— James K. Morrow
It's possible to be flippant here, when Jihadists fly aircraft into buildings they shout God is Great, what do atheists shout when they do it?
— Martin Amis
We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.
— PZ Myers
Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.
— Abraham Lincoln
Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.
— Al Ries
Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look.
— William S. Burroughs
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
— Aristophanes
The whole world is men's bloody fantasies.
— Kathy Acker
If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't. And if that's what God's like, I wouldn't worry about it.
— Haruki Murakami
I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God's existence isn't important. It's what we do with what we've got that counts.
— Michael Ruse
His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.
— William Shakespeare
The god of the world's leading religion.
— Ambrose Bierce
When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.
— Mark Twain
'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd.
— Robert Browning
Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.
— Elbert Hubbard
Atheism is a sort of crippled mysticism, [...] Blind nature has created all that we see, as well as all that we do not see - that's a mystical notion.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Whatever you have to do to have a good time, let's get on with it, so long as it doesn't cause a murder.
— Frank Zappa
Yes, I do not like people saying that atheism is based on science, because it's not. It's an alien invasion of science.
— Carl Woese
If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.
— C.S. Lewis
There's probably no God. So stop worrying and enjoy your life.
— Ariane Sherine
It's a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It's the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.
— Ricky Gervais
It's the noisiest thing I've ever experienced.
— Alfred Goodwin
There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.
— Bertrand Russell
If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [ ... ], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.
— Salman Rushdie
For how can you compete Being honour bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbour's eyes?
— William Butler Yeats
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning ...
— C.S. Lewis
Archaeology digs the Bible's grave.
— Steve Dustcircle
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?
— Denis Diderot
Faith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause.
— Ludwig Feuerbach
If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.
— Voltaire
I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument.
— Christopher Hitchens
I'm always talking to God about whether or not he exists - that's how I know I'm a theist.
— Criss Jami
God might not be dead, but he's sure as hell missing in action.
— Quentin R. Bufogle
The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.
— William Rainey Harper
That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.
— C.S. Lewis
Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before.
— T. S. Eliot
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.
— Archibald MacLeish
How do you know it's not true if you don't believe in it?
— Pete Hautman
Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?
— John Piper
It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area protected by a taboo.
— Garrett Hardin
Every agnostic has a minister, Mike. Otherwise, they's be atheists.
— Jared C. Wilson
An atheist's response to a creationist asking 'what if' there was a God,
That would be quite an unsettling thought. — Anonymous
That would be quite an unsettling thought. — Anonymous
There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?
— Daniel Dennett
Liberty's chief foe is theology.
— Charles Bradlaugh
Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man's ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his own problems.
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair
[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.
— Carl Sagan
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.
— Dan Barker
God doesn't send atheists to Hell
there's no room with all the Christians down there. — Quentin R. Bufogle
there's no room with all the Christians down there. — Quentin R. Bufogle
I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
He's a smart man, so I am assuming he will do it.
— Michael Newdow
The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.
— Bertrand Russell
I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.
— William Blake
To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.
— Andrew Carnegie
Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I believe BECAUSE it's impossible.
— Tertullian
Christ's religion needs no prop of any kind from any worldly source, and to the degree that it is thus supported is a millstone hanged about its neck.
— George W Truett
The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.
— Matilda Joslyn Gage
I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work.
— Adolf Hitler
The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.
— Shane Claiborne
It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate.
— Richard Dawkins
I am an infidel. I know what an infidel is, and that's what I am.
— Luther Burbank
Darwinism's atheism prevents science from knowing why things are as they are. Without God there is no answer to the why for anything.
— Dave Hunt
Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past.
— William Hurrell Mallock
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
— Manly P. Hall
If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.
— Christopher Hitchens