Augustus Hare Quotes

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

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

I've never met a happy atheist.

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

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

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.

I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

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

Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it.

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

I didn't say there's nothing out there, but there certainly isn't any God.

The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snowboarding, 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 consider myself a religious person, but when it comes to God and faith, I don't know. I guess that means I'm agnostic.

For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.

Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.

Faith is as essential to the spiritual realm as oxygen is to the natural realm.

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

I believe in angels, so it's simple.