Atheism Quotes - Page 52

Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?

There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.

The word heretic ought to be a term of honour.

God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

Atheism is a religion the way abstinence is a sex position.

It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym for this word.

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.

Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.

Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.

... reason accepts no commandments.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

Apologys for self-evident Truths can never have any effect on those who have so little Sense as to deny them. They are the Foundation of all Reasoning, and the only just Bottom on which Men can proceed in convincing one another of the Truth: and by consequence whoever is capable of denying them, is not in a condition to be informed.

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.

But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.

Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.

What! I should call on that Infinite Love that has served us so well? Infinite cruelty rather, that made everlasting hell, Made us, foreknew us, foredoom'd us, and does what he will with his own; Better our dead brute mother who never has heard us groan.

You need not value it yourself if you do not wish to; but you ought to allow it to us who do value it.

Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.

Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.

I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.