Atheist Quotes

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)

We are only here for a little while, and our bodies belong to ourselves and no one else.

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy.

You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is “I don’t know”.

Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith.

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)

Although we're made right with God by faith, and not by works, the effectiveness of our prayers is often tied to the holiness of our lives.

Life has trained many of us to think of love as temporary and conditional.

Has any non-dipshit man ever used the word "ladies" not followed by the word "room"?

..If not for the influence of Humans, I would not be Human. Shouldn't it be concerning that the quality of such examples continues to dwindle?

He became...the ideal of that virtue which delights in its own work...doing everything with simplicity and dignity, for he seemed to realize that his objective added nobility to everything he did.

If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, scientists are only slightly better.

Religion allows people to ignore the needs of real beings in favour of the supposed wishes ofa being that does not exist.

So, my dear fellow, if I don't believe in God, I believe still less in man.

Where religion clashes with science is that religion makes smart people do stupid things.

To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157)

No matter what I feel, I hold the assurance that God never leaves me.

Jesus never criticized prayers that were honest, only those that were long and showy.

Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim

Reason is neutral. It has no biases. It has no agendas. There are no personal interests at stake. Reason simply says, “Here is the data, be responsible with it.” As such, reason is impartial.

A life based on [religious] faith is a life based on pure speculation, and speculation is, by its very definition, unsound.

Poverty has in its favour an exquisite sleep filled with beautiful dreams.

I was not alone in my success, only in my failure.

But [he] had lost god, and all his family and friends were staying behind with his imaginary friend. A silly dream goes away and takes with it your whole real life.

Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.

But God does give us responsibility, and it takes biblical faith to do those things in dependence on God.