Francis Bacon Quotes

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.

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.

No it's not!" said Constable Visit. "Atheism is a denial of a god." "Therefore It Is A Religious Position," said Dorfl. "Indeed, A True Atheist Thinks Of The Gods Constantly, Albeit In Terms of Denial. Therefore, Atheism Is A Form Of Belief. If The Atheist Truly Did Not Believe, He Or She Would Not Bother To Deny.

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

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

I'm an atheist.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

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

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

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

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

Revealed religion had no weight with me.

When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.

In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.

No man has ceased to believe in God before having decided that he should not exist; no book would produce atheism, and no book can restore faith.

I don't think I have any particular problem with God.

I am an absolute atheist.

I've never met a happy atheist.

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.

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

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

For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.

Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.