Zach Anner Quotes

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

I gave up religious thinking a long time ago and am really just an agnostic now.

Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind.

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

I believe in nothing.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'

Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

I don't need faith.

If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.

Faith is Doubt.

Revealed religion had no weight with me.

I never believed in God, and I will never believe in it.

Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

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

Richard did not believe in angels, he never had. He was damned if he was going to start now. Still, it was much easier not to believe in something when it was not actually looking directly at you and saying your name.

I profess no belief in God, which by definition is true, especially if we take the accepted definition of God. But to be an atheist is to also have a belief, and have a system, and I don't know that I like that either.

Unbelief is the greatest of sins.

I do not believe in Belief.

And if someone doesn’t believe in any afterlife?” I asked. Walt gave me a sad look. “Then that’s what they experience.

Atheism thrives on bad religion.

I choose to believe in God, but I have serious doubts.

God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.