Julia Sweeney Quotes

I don't believe in God because certain reasons and arguments weigh more heavily in my mind than others, not because I have willfully decided to reject my creator, as many religious people seem to think. I could no more simply decide to believe in God than I could decide to like beetroot, just like that.

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

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

And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that.

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

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

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.

I'm an agnosto-theist.

I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one.

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.

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

I gave up religious thinking a long time ago and am really just an agnostic now.

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.

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.

An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not. The Agnostic suspends judgment, saying that there are not sufficient grounds either for affirmation or for denial. At the same time, an Agnostic may hold that the existence of God, though not impossible, is very improbable; he may even hold it so improbable that it is not worth considering in practice. In that case, he is not far removed from atheism.

I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.

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

There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.

I don't believe in God.

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

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

Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.

The existence of a single atheist does not disprove the existence of God.

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.