Flannery O'Connor Quotes

There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction.

I was born Jewish, but I am an atheist. I dont believe in God.

I'm neither Catholic not Protestant. Protestant sounds good but I don't think I am.

I am what you call a non-believer. I don't even want to say I'm an atheist because frankly I don't want to join their club either. But the point is, I am a fallen catholic, I'm not religious, and that's all well and good.

People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.

You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.

I may be a good Catholic, a bad Catholic or a so-so Catholic, but that's who I am.

I'm not a practising Muslim.

It's almost inevitable that we become religious people. The question is, what kind of religion is it?

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it.

I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes.

I'd like to thank God for making me an atheist.

I didn't know you were Catholic.

And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the 21st century most people still believe in, as George Carlin puts it, 'the invisible man living in the sky'

I'm not a believer, I call myself an atheist. It was man who invented God. I once wrote that there are 15 things I know about God, and one is that he is allergic to shellfish. There are far too many commandments and you really only need one: Do not hurt anybody.

It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.

I don't see how one can "believe in organized religion." What does it mean to believe in an organization? One can join it, support it, oppose it, accept its doctrines or reject them. There are many kinds of organized religion. People associate themselves with some of them, or not, for all sorts of reasons, maybe belief in some of their doctrines.

Christian is a term used to describe a broad range of those who believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God. I think of myself at an Evangelical Christian and regularly attend a Pentecostal church.

If you asked me one day, I might say, "Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious." If you asked me another day, I'd just say flat out, "No."

God knows, I'm not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.

When I learned that there was such a thing as an atheist, I looked it up - and found out that the definition fitted me to a tee. Finally, at the age of 24, I found out who and what I was. Better late than never.

I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.