Shane Claiborne Quotes

I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.

The secular mind is God's huge gift to us, for us to use for the sake of one another.

It is curious that atheists have proved to be so intolerant of those who have a faith.

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

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.

I want to thank you, especially those people who are agnostic or atheist. I don't mean any offense by the things I said of the spirit world. Thank you for allowing me to speak about the spiritual, because I can't talk about my life or writing without mentioning that.

For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling of shared connection with other living things, a desire to help people less fortunate than ourselves. All of these things can occur with or without God. I do not believe in the existence of God, but I consider myself a spiritual person in the manner I have just described. I call myself a spiritual atheist. I would imagine that many people are spiritual atheists.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

I'm not a religious person.

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.

I'm not a religious person at all.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.

I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions.

Understanding the need for religion is a far superior goal to bashing it.

I don't believe in God.

A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it

Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty of people who profess to be religious, even those who worship regularly, show no particular interest in the world beyond themselves.

To give religion two minutes a day, in its own space, isn't exactly selling general morality or atheism short.

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

I personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel we are evolving in that direction.

I got none. I mean, I have no religion. I like the quote unquote 'Virgin Mary,' but no Catholicism.

I am not a believer in god nor do I visit temple.