John Tillotson Quotes

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

Humanity is the child of religion.

Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists - like the painting experts hated the painter - hate God because He does exist.

You can be a virtuous person without faith in God.

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

I'm not a religious person at all.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

Atheists are pious people.

I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.

People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have committed.

Many good people practice no faith at all.

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.

Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Try to live as if there were a God

[I'm] almost positive there is no God.

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

It never really occurred to me to believe in God.

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

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

Atheism thrives on bad religion.

Thank you God for making me an atheist.