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Here we are, we are alone in the universe, there is no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We have only got ourselves. Somehow, we have just got to make a go of it. We have only ourselves.
Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full blown religious commitment.
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
No one can be an unbeliever now a days. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are health, wealth, and power.
Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man.
To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure if faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.
Atheism, if it exists, is the result of ignorance and pride, of strong sense and feeble reason. Of good eating and ill living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of morals, and the underminer of property.
If a man of sober habits, moderate, chaste, and just in all his dealings should assert there is no God, he would at least speak without interested motives; but such a man is not to be found.
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.
Atheism is the death of hope, the suicide of the soul.
The footprint of the savage in the sand is sufficient to prove the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God though his hand is impressed on the entire universe.
Few man are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to the acknowledgement of a divine power.
A little philosophy inclineth men’s minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds to religion; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further. But when it beholden the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to providence and Deity.
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph, make atheists of mankind.
Atheism is the folly of the metaphysician, not the folly of human nature.
In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.
The atheist is one who fain would pull God from his throne, and in the place of heaven’s eternal kings set up the phantom chance.
Plato was right in calling atheism a disease. The human intellect in its healthy action, holds it for certain that there is a Great being over us, invisible, infinite, ineffable, but of real, solid personality, who made and governs us, and who made and governs all things.
An irreligious man, a speculative or a practical atheist, is as a sovereign, who voluntarily takes off his crown and declares himself unworthy to region.
Atheism is never the error of society, in any stage or circumstance whatever. In the belief of a Deity savage and sage have alike agreed. The great error has been, not the denial of one God, but the belief of many; but polytheism has been a popular and poetical, rather than a philosophical error.
Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding.
Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full blown religious commitment.
Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) French philosopher.
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
John Buchan (1875-1940) British author.
No one can be an unbeliever now a days. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
Saki (H.H. Munro) (1870-1916) Scottish author.
The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are health, wealth, and power.
Colton.
Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man.
Bacon.
To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure if faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.
Addison.
Atheism, if it exists, is the result of ignorance and pride, of strong sense and feeble reason. Of good eating and ill living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of morals, and the underminer of property.
Jeremy Collier.
If a man of sober habits, moderate, chaste, and just in all his dealings should assert there is no God, he would at least speak without interested motives; but such a man is not to be found.
Bruyere.
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.
Mrs. Stowe.
Atheism is the death of hope, the suicide of the soul.
The footprint of the savage in the sand is sufficient to prove the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God though his hand is impressed on the entire universe.
Hugh Miller.
Few man are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to the acknowledgement of a divine power.
Plato.
A little philosophy inclineth men’s minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds to religion; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further. But when it beholden the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to providence and Deity.
Bacon.
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph, make atheists of mankind.
Dryden.
Atheism is the folly of the metaphysician, not the folly of human nature.
George Bancroft.
In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.
H.More.
The atheist is one who fain would pull God from his throne, and in the place of heaven’s eternal kings set up the phantom chance.
Glynn.
Plato was right in calling atheism a disease. The human intellect in its healthy action, holds it for certain that there is a Great being over us, invisible, infinite, ineffable, but of real, solid personality, who made and governs us, and who made and governs all things.
R.D. Hitchcock.
An irreligious man, a speculative or a practical atheist, is as a sovereign, who voluntarily takes off his crown and declares himself unworthy to region.
Blackie.
Atheism is never the error of society, in any stage or circumstance whatever. In the belief of a Deity savage and sage have alike agreed. The great error has been, not the denial of one God, but the belief of many; but polytheism has been a popular and poetical, rather than a philosophical error.
Henry Fergus.
Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding.
Plato.
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