Paul Bettany Quotes

I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe it myself.

I'm an agnostic in the truest sense of the word. I think about these things - I grew up Roman Catholic, I've been interested in Hinduism, in Eastern religions, but I'm not dedicated to anything - I go through periods where I think maybe it's all nonsense; maybe it's 'The Matrix...' I'm open to various ideas.

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

I see myself as a spiritual person, but I don't think anyone should claim proof of a god. No one can prove it. That's why I don't claim to know whether there are one, many or no gods.

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.

Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either.

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.

It never really occurred to me to believe in God.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

I'm a Christian now. The things that drove me crazy growing up was how everyone works at fault-finding with different religions. The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snow boarding and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away.

I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

My father was an agnostic.

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

I'm personally a nonbeliever, so I'm struggling with if we really need religion.

You seem much too intelligent to believe in God.

I'm an atheist, and I don't believe in ghosts.

I was raised in a deeply Catholic family. There was a sense that everything we were doing was to prepare ourselves for an afterlife in heaven. In my teenage years, that became less important to me. Eventually, that turned into agnosticism, which became atheism.

I am an absolute atheist.

I consider myself a religious person, but when it comes to God and faith, I don't know. I guess that means I'm agnostic.

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

I don't believe in heaven and hell. I don't know if I believe in God. All I know is that as an individual, I won't allow this life - the only thing I know to exist - to be wasted.