Atheist Vs Theist Quotes

#1. It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.

Dalai Lama

#2. Refer me to one atheist who denies the existence of God ... Etymologically, as well as philosophically, an atheist is one without God. That is all the 'A' before 'Theist' really means.

George William Foote

#3. Aunts Aren't Gentlemen

P.G. Wodehouse

#4. Theists and atheists are equally religious.

Kedar Joshi

#5. Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.

Bill Gaede

#6. That's how fossil hunting is: It takes over, like a hunger, and nothing else matters but what you find. And even when you find it, you still start looking again the next minute, because there might be something even better waiting.

Tracy Chevalier

#7. The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.

Sri Aurobindo

#8. The Theist tells us that the truth is god exists,
the Atheist tells us that the truth is there is no god,
while the truth tells us we don't know.

Kodai Okuda

#9. An atheist is as religious as a theist.

Kedar Joshi

#10. Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come.

Bruce Catton

#11. 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

#12. Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

Frances Power Cobbe

#13. I would not be too surprised to see a flying horse; I would consider it as a gift of the evolution; but I would be very surprised if it had horseshoe sounds!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I'm an atheist.
[Letter to Max Otto]

John Dewey

#15. The issue between the atheist and the believer is not whether it makes sense to question ultimate fact, it is rather the question: what fact is ultimate? The atheist's ultimate fact is the universe; the theist's ultimate fact is God.68

John C. Lennox

#16. No matter how shitty it got, I could always look back and say, "At least I don't have my arm stuck up a cow's vagina." In fact, that's kind of become my life's motto. It's also what I say when I'm at a loss for words when talking to people who are grieving the loss of their grandparents.

Jenny Lawson

#17. I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.

Charles Fort

#18. If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist - he is without that belief. The distinction between atheism and theism is entirely, exclusively, that of whether one has or has not a belief in God.

Chapman Cohen

#19. Our English language really says if you're not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheist. What I'm trying to do is develop a language that will enable us to talk about God beyond the, what I think, are sterile categories of theism and atheism.

John Shelby Spong

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

Eli Of Kittim

#21. The claim 'God does not exist' is just as much a claim to know something as saying 'God does exist,' meaning the atheist needs just as much substantiation for his claim as the theist does for his.

Scott Klusendorf

#22. An Atheist reads "god is nowhere"
but a theist reads "god is now here "
so the whole thing is our piont of view
how we can see the world ...

Jagvir

#23. There will be justice," said Brutha. "If there is no justice, there is nothing.

Terry Pratchett

#24. I am 95% a theist and 5% an atheist; thus ultimately I am an agnostic.

Kedar Joshi

#25. An atheist who is a statist is just another theist.

Stefan Molyneux

#26. Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments, an atheist does not appear positively to refuse that a God may be ... His verdict on the doctrine of God is only that it is not proven. It is not that it is disproven. He is but an atheist. He is not an anti-theist.

Thomas Chalmers

#27. Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice.

Raheel Farooq

#28. In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is born an agnostic. In a patriarchal society, the kid is automatically an atheist.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#29. Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

Samuel Butler

#30. It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist ... I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God.

Charles Darwin

#31. Atheist's denial of God's existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist's claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God's existence.

Paul Copan

#32. At the end of it all, what flashes before our eyes won't be all the things we did that were bigger than ourselves; they'll be all the moments when we made a difference by being true to ourselves.

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