Atheist Faith Quotes

#1. At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble

Alister E. McGrath

#2. We are a nation conceived, born and nurtured by faith ... Our faith is declared in our Constitution, on our currency and in our lives.

Bob Dole

#3. I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it ... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.

Jim Butcher

#4. A complete atheist stands on the next-to-last upper step to the most complete faith (he may or may not take that step), while the indifferent one has no faith, apart from a bad fear.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#6. A temple for an atheist and a hope of a single person to find a date are same. Meaningless but strong faith.

It's like a single guy would marry a girl who would go to the temple with a hope and pray that she would find an atheist like her someday.

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#7. The complete atheist stands on the next-to-last highest rung leading to the fullest and most complete faith (he may take that step, or he may not), but the indifferent man has no faith at all, except an ugly fear.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. COMPASSION

The religion of atheists

Kamil Ali

#9. The more I read arguments for atheism, the more I am convinced it takes a very strong faith to be an atheist. And atheism seems to me the least reasonable of all faiths.

Corrado Ghinamo

#10. I have not tolerated an atheist in the ranks of the SS. Every member has a deep faith in God, in what my ancestors called in their language Waralda, the ancient one, the one who is mightier than we are.

Heinrich Himmler

#11. Faith is blind belief. Atheism is blind disbelief. No one has all the information needed to take up such fixed positions.

Stewart Stafford

#12. The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe; the theist believes a 'who' created the universe.

Criss Jami

#13. Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.

Richard Dawkins

#14. I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.

Bill Wilson

#15. It takes more faith to be an atheist than to believe in God.

Ruth Graham

#16. In classrooms and living rooms across the globe, an agnostic or an atheist may be heard to strenuously argue, 'But the Bible is just a book.' Similar arguments may be raised against other holy books. But they all are too ironic, by half. A book is the Bible.

Gerald Weaver

#17. It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

Thomas Paine

#18. I am, perhaps, too intellectual, too modern, for my own comfort! How lovely it would be to sink into the warm comfort of established religion.

Lisa Tuttle

#19. I am a person of faith. I'm certainly not an atheist or an agnostic and I see some divine force somewhere.

John E. Jones III

#20. Nothing in any religious teachings goes beyond Humanism, unless you add the supernatural...Make believe is the only difference between being human and being religious.

Travis Culliton

#21. Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.

Al Gore

#22. The denial of Christ has less to do with facts and more to do with the bent of what a person is prejudiced to conclude.

Ravi Zacharias

#23. Ok to appoint atheists or agnostics-no litmus test of faith.

Mitt Romney

#24. Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.

Pope John Paul II

#25. For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist; it's absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart - then no problem.

Dalai Lama

#26. Why isn't there a book about someone losing their faith and it being a beautiful experience?

Julia Sweeney

#27. The difference between an atheist and a person of faith? One additional religion in the crazy column. You believe that all religions except yours are crazy. I believe that all religions including yours are crazy.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#28. I was born a Christian, but I became an atheist back in high school because I just started losing faith. I'd lost my brother and best friend, Nadarius. I couldn't get a job. But I do feel like there is a higher power now, and it's inside of me.

SpaceGhostPurrp

#29. I'm the world's least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you're not in love with.

Lisa Williams

#30. I do not judge the individual based on their belief. If I were to, then I would, undoubtedly, be no better than the (religious) system that I frown upon.

Travis Culliton

#31. Today secular faith is ebbing, and it is the apostles of unbelief who are left stranded on the beach.

John Gray

#32. I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America.

John F. Kerry

#33. In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I was professing atheism? To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled - that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.

Simone Weil

#34. The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

Eric Hoffer

#35. I affirm my faith when I'm asked about it. But I always try to do so in a way that communicates absolute respect, not only for people who worship in a different way, but just as much respect for those who do not believe in God and who are atheists.

Al Gore

#36. The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.

Michael Shermer

#37. I don't personally have enough faith to be an atheist.

Rick Warren

#38. I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.

Andrew Schneider

#39. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

Epicurus

#40. In principle I'm an atheist, although in fact I have a lot of faith

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

Michael Vito Tosto

#42. God seemed to have become a brand, a packaging, and people purchase this trusted brand with such faith and devotion that they no longer care who the vendor is.

Justin Villanueva

#43. Tolerance is NOT acceptance. And that's the problem with ALL religion. It teaches acceptance only for those who believe exactly as you do, and at best, tolerance for the rest of us "sinners." Sorry. Not acceptable.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#44. I don't have enough faith to be an Atheist..

Norman Geisler

#45. ALL MEN HAVE a religion or totems of some kind. Even the atheist is committed to an enormous act of faith in his belief that the universe created itself and the subsequent creation of intelligent life was simply a biological accident.

James Lee Burke

#46. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God

Thomas Jefferson

#47. Having been shown the possibility that God exists, the atheist has
chosen not to accept it. They have no proof or even evidence of
their belief, but will stick by it. This takes blind faith.

Lewis N. Roe

#48. He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult passages of the Koran; for every educated man is a theologian and faith is not a requisite.

Jorge Luis Borges

#49. Everybody has faith of some kind in one thing or another. Even the atheist has faith that there is no God. And the agnostic has faith in his belief that he is unable to believe.

Ron Brackin

#50. ...atheism leaves no room for excuses...

Travis Culliton

#51. You've lost faith in yourself? Isn't that rich? A god who's become a self-atheist!

Orson Scott Card

#52. We were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations; we have stamped it out.

Adolf Hitler

#53. Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot retreat to the comforts of atheism.

Martin Walser

#54. The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

Thomas Paine

#55. We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.

William Temple

#56. An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Simone Weil

#57. You can be an atheist three seasons out of the year, but not during spring. Spring makes it mandatory to believe in a Divine Creator.

Toni Sorenson

#58. To even win a nomination in this country, you have to say you're a person of great faith. You have to pledge to the people out there that you put your faith in things that are unable to be proven - that you suspend critical thinking as the way to go.

Bill Maher

#59. It is curious that atheists have proved to be so intolerant of those who have a faith.

Chris Patten

#60. You know, I'm atheist, but I get it. I get why people have faith in a higher power. Some people need it. They need to believe they're not alone.

Hannah Harrington

#61. Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.

John Clayton

#62. When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self. I had faith that I'm capable enough to handle any situation. There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and [that] I'm responsible.

Brad Pitt

#63. In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.

Jon Meacham

#64. Every religion ... has rituals, practices, holy writings or traditions, etc. Nothing like that has ever developed from Atheism. There are no holy men, holidays or holy books and no agreed-upon canons of faith. In fact, the only thing you can get some Atheists to agree upon is that there is no god.

Darrel Ray

#65. I'm noticing an exciting trend around the country: a resurgence of interest in Christian apologetics (the defense of the faith). This is a reaction to the current attacks on the essentials of Christianity that are coming from militant atheists, radical professors, and Internet gadflies.

Lee Strobel

#66. My question to the atheist is, do you want an atheist world or a peaceful world? And to the believer, do you want a religious world or a peaceful world? Religious orientation doesn't define peace, but the answer here may define one's true nature.

Abhijit Naskar

#67. A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.

H.L. Mencken

#68. To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Joseph Addison

#69. Whether you call yourself a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim, a Hindu or an Atheist, if you have kindness in your heart and compassion in your act, you are on the right path of religion.

Abhijit Naskar

#70. The difference between a theist and an atheist is the degree to which God has revealed himself to them.

Eli Of Kittim

#71. You don't so much as become an atheist as find out that's what you are. There's no moment of conversion. You don't suddenly think 'I don't believe this anymore.' You essentially find you don't believe it.

Christopher Hitchens

#72. I have been an atheist my entire adult life. I do not proselytize, however. Nor do I question the faith of others. I just don't want to be obliged to accept someone else's faith as a factor in my government.

Jack Germond