To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of
faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would
deny.
- Joseph Addison
If you love God, burn the church.
- Jello Biafra
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf
of a single petitioner who confesses to his unworthiness.
- Ambrose Bierce
I'm still an atheist, thank God.
- Luis Bunuel
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been
found dificult and not tried.
- G. K. Chesterton
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
- Michael Crichton
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is
blind.
- Albert Einstein
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on
sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is
necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be
restrained by fear of punishment and hope of rewards after
death.
- Albert Einstein
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits
suicide.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone must have two pockets, so that he can reach into the
one or the other, according to his needs. In his right pocket
are to be the words: "For my sake was the world created," and in
his left: "I am dust and ashes."
- Hasidic Saying
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense
of religion.
- James Harrington
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if
there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than
that of blind-folded fear.
- Thomas Jefferson
I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the
sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife
is beautiful and his children are smart.
- H. L. Mencken
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the
evil conscience of their parents.
H. L. Mencken
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His
reputation if He didn't.
- Jules Renard
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to
the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a
sober one.
- George Bernard Shaw
The church is the great lost and found department.
- Robert Short
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
- Oscar Wilde
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of
Western religion; rejection without proof is the fundamental
characteristic of Western science.
- Gary Zukav