J. K. Rowling Quotes

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

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

Thank God I'm an atheist.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Many good people practice no faith at all.

If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.

You can be a virtuous person without faith in God.

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

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.

What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic.

Any simple claim that you need religion to be good is flat wrong.

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe.

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.

I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.

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

Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.

Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.