Norman Geisler Quotes

I wouldn't call myself an atheist. I neither deny nor accept that there is a God... So I do not laugh at people who believe in God. But I do not necessarily believe in God - nor deny that there could be one.

That's true that I'm "not religious as that term is conventionally understood," though I've never been an atheist. Atheism is an active faith; it says, "I believe there is no God." But I don't know what I believe. I was brought up a Lutheran in Jamestown, North Dakota. I have trouble with faith. I'm not proud of this. I don't think it makes me an intellectual. I would believe if I could, and I may be able to before it's over. I would welcome that.

An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.

There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.

I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.

I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.

...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.

An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.

You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is “I don’t know”.

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

Who couldn't believe there's a God?

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.

I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.

I am not an atheist. An atheist is someone who has compelling evidence that there is no Judeo-Christian-Islamic God. I am not that wise, but neither do I consider there to be anything approaching adequate evidence for such a god. Why are you in such a hurry to make up your mind? Why not simply wait until there is compelling evidence?

Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

For a while, I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label.

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).

I don't say that I'm an atheist. I don't like that term, because I think it mirrors the certitude of religion. I say I don't know. And if you don't know - and you don't - just man up and say you don't know. Don't turn to silly stories and ancient myths.

I am not absolutely positive there is no god. Only in the sense that I'm not absolutely positive there is no large china teapot in orbit in the solar system.

Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times.