C. S. Lewis Quotes

Thank God I'm an atheist.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

I am an atheist still, thank God.

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.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.

Thank you God for making me an atheist.

I'm still an atheist, thank God.

Thank God, I am still an atheist.

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.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

Jesus is a half-naked guy, hanging, nailed to a cross, and then people wear that around their neck, and then those are the people that are upset about violence in movies.

My parents are like religious atheists.

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

… like looking for an atheist in heaven

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

I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance! just doesn't cut it….

Many an atheist is a believer without knowing it juast as many a believer is an atheist without knowing it. You can sincerely believe there is no God and live as though there is. You can sincerely believe there is a God and live as though there isn't.

After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected as an adult - I'm lying in bed thinking, Hmmm, maybe I ought to pray. They always say there are no atheists in a foxhole... and I thought, Here I am in a pretty good-sized foxhole... and I thought Naahhh. I wouldn't respect any God who would listen to me after I'd rejected him so vociferously.

I'm a born - again atheist.

How is it possible to hold such anger against something you don't believe in?

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.