Atheism Quotes
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Below are some atheism quotes from notable scientists, scholars, and others:
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Atheism Quotes Relating to Science
- "Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the Earth at the right distance from the Sun to receive proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance." - Sir Isaac Newton[1]
- "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." - Sir Isaac Newton[2]
- A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. - Sir Francis Bacon [3]
- God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. - Sir Francis Bacon [4]
- "In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views." - Albert Einstein [5]
- The Seventh Judicial Circuit of the Court of Appeals of the United States held that atheism is a religion and therefore it cannot be promoted by a public school. Currently public schools are promoting atheism through a dogmatic and uncritical teaching of materialistic theories of origins. - John Calvert, Intelligent Design leader[6]
Ancient Atheism Quotes
"The fool has said in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good." - The psalmist David, Psalms 14:1 (KJV)
The psalmist David also stated that "The heavens declare the glory of God..." - Psalms 19:1
The Apostle Paul wrote to the Romans that the creation testifies the existence of God, when he wrote the following:
"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse..." - Romans 1:19-20 (NKJV)
- The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice. - Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.), Roman orator, philosopher, and statesman[8]
Other Atheism Quotes
- Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman." - Francis Thomson[9]
- You think you are too intelligent to believe in God. I am not like you. -Napoleon Bonaparte
- The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life. – Oswald Chambers
- God is dead not because He doesn’t exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn’t. -Chuck Colson
- "The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability." - Voltaire[10]
- "A man that is endued with the powers of reason, by which he is capable of knowing, serving, glorifying, and enjoying his Maker, and yet lives without God in the world, is certainly the most despicable and the most miserable animal under the sun." - Matthew Henry [11]
- "Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear." - Alexander Pope[12]
- "An atheist’s most embarrassing moment is when he feels profoundly thankful for something, but can’t think of anyone to thank for it" - Mary Anne Vincent [13]
- If there were no God there would be no atheists. - G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936) [14]
- Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist there is no God. - Heywood Broun
- Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God. - Tom Stoppard
- I gave in, and admitted that God was God. - ex-atheist C.S. Lewis, On relinquishing atheism at age 31 in 1929[15]
- "In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth century. Interestingly, Nietzshean dogma influenced each of them." - Ravi Zacharias[16]
- "The atheist risk everything for the present and the future, on the basis of a belief that we are uncaused by any intelligent being. We just happen to be here. That one is willing to live and die in that belief is a very high price to pay for conjecture." - Ravi Zacharias[17]
- In his essay rebutting a work of atheist Jeffery Jay Lowder Christian apologist JP Holding wrote the following: "...I find that there is no such thing as "reasonable non belief." The litany of excuses, wild speculations, and other absurdities ground out by skeptics and critics doesn't deserve the adjective "reasonable"."[18]
- An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident. — Francis Thompson[19]
- To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny. - Joseph Addison, The Spectator, Mar. 8, 1711 [20]
- It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could have little faith in ourselves. We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love. Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important, and that his work, well done, is a part of an unending plan. - Calvin Coolidge, speech, Jul. 25, 1924 [21]
- Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead? - John Updike [22]
- "Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing" [23] - St. Thomas Aquinas
- "He complained in no way of the evil reputation under which he lived, indeed, all over the world, and he assured me that he himself was of all living beings the most interested in the destruction of Superstition, and he avowed to me that he had been afraid, relatively as to his proper power, once only, and that was on the day when he had heard a preacher, more subtle than the rest of the human herd, cry in his pulpit: "My dear brethren, do not ever forget, when you hear the progress of lights praised, that the loveliest trick of the Devil is to persuade you that he does not exist!" - Charles Baudelaire's short story, The Generous Gambler written in 1864
Humorous Atheism Quotes
- How to trap an atheist: Serve him a fine meal, then ask him if he believes there is a cook. — Source Unknown [24]
- I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up . . . they have no holidays. - Henny Youngman[25]
