Lee Strobel Quotes

The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan.

Atheists are pious people.

Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.

The current climate of religiosity can be stifling to nonbelievers, and it helps now and then to cry foul. For one thing, some of the numbers surrounding the deep religiousness of America, and the rarity of non-belief, should be held to the fire of skepticism

I come from a secular background.

As [The Nation columnist Katha] Pollitt points out, when one starts looking beneath the surface of things and adding together the out-front atheists with the indifferent nonbelievers, you end up with a much larger group of people than Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Unitarians put together.

Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.

It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.

All thinking men are atheists.

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

I rightly pass for an atheist.

I am a very nonspiritual person.

Freedom of religion has been replaced by freedom from religion.

Saying atheism is a belief system is like saying not going skiing is a hobby.

I don't want people to think I believe in God.

I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect of the supernatural and which I find totally satisfying. I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so.

I don't believe in God and all that. But I am Jewish, and very proud to be so, very proud of the culture.

A mere society form of Atheism.

I’m an atheist. The good news about atheists is that we have no mandate to convert anyone. So you’ll never find me on your doorstep on a Saturday morning with a big smile saying ‘Just stopped by to tell you there is no word. I brought along this little blank book I was hoping you could take a look at.’

I am confident that those who believe in belief are wrong. That is, we no more need to preserve the myth of God in order to preserve a just and stable society than we needed to cling to the Gold Standard to keep our currency sound. It was a useful crutch, but we've outgrown it. Denmark, according to a recent study, is the sanest, healthiest, happiest, most crime-free nation in the world, and by and large the Danes simply ignore the God issue. We should certainly hope that those who believe in belief are wrong, because belief is waning fast, and the props are beginning to buckle.

I am an atheist, I have no religious beliefs. And obviously I don’t believe in spirituality of some kind.

I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.

Americans practice different faiths in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. And many good people practice no faith at all.

Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.

I have no problem with people's religious beliefs. I just don't happen to have any.