William Howard Taft Quotes

There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking.

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.

I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting in the chairs, thinking, 'Jeez, why am I here? I'd rather be playing tennis, seriously.'

I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.

As a teenager and a student, I totally cast away the Christian faith. I just believed it was stupid, and only stupid people could believe it. I actually became an anti-Christian, and very antagonistic.

I believe the fast track to atheism is reading the Bible. I've read it three times all the way through. It's a big part of our culture, a big part of our history. I don't just read things I agree with.

A deist is someone who has not lived long enough to be an atheist.

I do not know what to make of a republic of 30 million atheists.

Revealed religion had no weight with me.

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

I no longer believe that the Bible is the literal and infallible word of God. And I don't believe in God as a figure in the sky listening to your prayers, things like that.

Sometimes I feel like those born-again folk, always working on their faith, but I'm always working on my atheism. We all have our struggles.

For most of my life I didn't believe in God. Who had time?

if there is a god, he sure hates people

I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares about how we are or what we do. ... Religious skeptics often become very bitter towards the end, as did Mark Twain. ... I know why I will become bitter. I will finally realize that I have had it right all along: that I will not see God, that there is no heaven or Judgement Day.

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is the kind of God who watches over human affairs, listens to prayers, and tries to guide people to follow His precepts - there is just too much misery and cruelty for that.

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares how we are or what we do.

When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.

From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.

Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.

The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.

You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.