Faith Skepticism Quotes

We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.

Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don’t believe in, we quickly discover that I don’t believe in that god, either.

It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.

All that impugn a received religion or superstition are, by the adverse part, branded with the name of atheists.

I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

The atheist does not say 'there is no God,' but he says 'I know not what you mean by God; I am without idea of God'; the word 'God' is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation. ... The Bible God I deny; the Christian God I disbelieve in; but I am not rash enough to say there is no God as long as you tell me you are unprepared to define God to me.

An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.

Everyone just did what their parents did. So that immediately made me skeptical of the whole religion thing, even as a kid. So I never was really into religion as a concept.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life-hence it is a valuable possession to him.

I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.

I am not religious in the dogmatic sense... I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

Christianity is such a silly religion.

I buy very little of what's sold to me in the church. Very, very little.

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about.

Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.

Atheists sometimes come across as a bit arrogant in this regard, and characterizing faith as something only an idiot would attach themselves to.

No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.

I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the organized hustles.

I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.

For many people, the reluctance to embrace Christianity is as practical as it is intellectual. They want to know what the benefits of Christianity are, or what's in it for them.