Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it?

Next, they'll say, "Do you want to go to heaven?" Have you ever had anybody say, "No, I'd rather go to hell." My friend, understand this, everyone wants to go to heaven. They just don't want God to be there when they get there.

I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world.

I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.

A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.

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

We have to believe in free will. We’ve got no choice.

Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in God is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he becomes socially conscious. Religious belief prevented the growth of a sense of realism. But atheism at once makes man realistic and alive to the needs of morality. Atheism alone is the surest way to morality.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

I believe in God, and I certainly believe in the devil. There's certainly a devil, and he knows my name.

And she would say, "Today you believe in God?" And he would say, "Today I believe in love".

Saying that you don't believe in magic but do believe in god is a bit like saying you don't have sex with dogs, except labradors.

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.

Without God, I don't see how folks cope.

I think there's a God and I know it's not me. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God. You've probably heard the expression 'I believe in God, just not organized religion'. I don't think people would say that if the church truly lived like we are called to live.

The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the best sense of the moral, and the doubter often the best sense of the religious.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

There's a duality of a guy calling on God: 'Where are you when I need you?' and then, at the same time, 'God helps those who help themselves.' I think that contradiction does exist in all of us, those of faith and those who profess to have no faith.

I don't claim to know what it means to say that we are made in the image of God, but I profoundly and instinctively believe it and all that it implies.

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.

How is it that you profess love for God but can't accept another human being?

Thank God I'm an atheist.