Quotes About Nonbelievers

#1. If once in America the question of religious toleration was raised in defense of nonbelievers who dissented from religious orthodoxy, today it is raised by believers who feel excluded from a predominantly secular public world.

Alan Wolfe

#2. Our world is divided into two kinds of people, believers, who don't know why not to believe others and nonbelievers, who don't know why they are not being believed.

Kunal Narayan Uniyal

#3. Nonbelievers are not anti-religious, they are anti-fraud and anti-deception.

Steve Fowler

#4. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers.

Barack Obama

#5. Jihad - God's lawful war against nonbelievers. To drive the point home, the ambassador left Jefferson and Adams with a final image of what American sailors would face on the high

Glenn Beck

#6. We in the United States are pluralistic respecting ultimate beliefs. Profound values exist apart from a devotion to a god. Indeed, those who discriminate against nonbelievers flout the principle of religious tolerance that they often profess.

Norman Dorsen

#7. Only [God] can convict nonbelievers of their sins; only He can convince them of the truth of the Gospel.

Billy Graham

#8. A Christian's celebration of Christmas should be a lot different from that of nonbelievers.

Monica Johnson

#9. God directs his people not simply to worship but to sing his praises "before the nations." We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them.

Timothy Keller

#10. Maybe we need more dialogue in terms of our faith, in terms of those who are believers, or even nonbelievers, about that aspect, and what that might mean if you were interpreting. You don't have to believe it; maybe you could draw a metaphor from it.

Joseph Fiennes

#11. Many devout Muslims, particularly in the east, understood that attacking helpless people, nonbelievers or not, was contrary to the tenets of Islam. Still, a vast number of Muslims saw the pronouncement of jihad as an endorsement for killing and looting.

Eric Bogosian

#12. The naysayers are not only casting doubt on science and nonbelievers; they are also ignoring the billions of non-conflicted believers around the world, dismissing their views as unworthy.

Bill Nye

#13. If you divide Christians into denominations, agnostics and atheists come in third, behind Catholics and Baptists. That's interesting when you contrast it with the lack of influence of nonbelievers.

Richard Dawkins

#14. Pure Flix makes evangelistic films, but we also make family films. I think the viewer wants to see quality entertainment that the whole family can watch, and many nonbelievers watch our films because they can watch with their family and young kids.

David A.R. White

#15. It is easy for Christians to allow themselves to be squeezed into the world's mold ... When nonbelievers see nothing different in the lifestyle of believers, they wonder if our profession of faith is sincere.

Billy Graham

#16. There is no hell. The Witnesses believe hell is a mistranslation of Gehenna, which was an ancient garbage dump. They say that nonbelievers simply die at Armageddon, rather than being thrown into an inferno. "How can you have a kind and loving God who also roasts people?" he asks. I

A. J. Jacobs

#17. Every believer is also a nonbeliever because he does not believe in the things nonbelievers believe in; every nonbeliever is also a believer because he believes in the things believers do not believe in!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry, and global warming; I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I am suspicious of using government to impose anybody's religious beliefs -including my own- on nonbelievers.

Barack Obama

#19. Just because some dreams never see light that doesn't make us nonbelievers, they are wings to our sky and fiction makes us dream. I know the truth is fatal, especially for the stubborn's but trust me the illusion is worse.

Parul Wadhwa

#20. Only if divine love burns in your heart can you awaken in a state of readiness, shaking off the paralyzing sleep that will overcome all humanity, believers and nonbelievers alike.

Basilea Schlink

#21. That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state to be their adversary. State power is no more to be used so as to handicap religions than it is to favor them.

Hugo Black

#22. Nonbelievers are protected by the religion clauses of the Constitution not because secular humanism is a religion, which it is not, but because when the government acts on the basis of religion it discriminates against those who do not "believe" in the governmentally favored manner.

Norman Dorsen

#23. As [The Nation columnist Katha] Pollitt points out, when one starts looking beneath the surface of things and adding together the out-front atheists with the indifferent nonbelievers, you end up with a much larger group of people than Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Unitarians put together.

Natalie Angier

#24. There is one more class of terminology to avoid: the "we-them" language that speaks disdainfully of nonbelievers or of other religions or denominations or simply caricatures or marginalizes the positions of people who do not share your beliefs and views.

Timothy Keller

#25. ... nonbelievers will insist on their convictions regardless
how many miracles are presented to them

Caner Taslaman

#26. ABC," one woman offered. "Assure, Believe, Convert." "Correct," Langdon said. "Religions assure salvation; religions believe in a perecise theology; and religions convert nonbelievers.

Dan Brown

#27. A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.

Robert H. Schuller

#28. What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.

Seth Godin

#29. Nonbelievers may hear all the notes of science, but without a theistic context and perspective they will not hear the song.

George Marsden

#30. As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

Ice-T

#31. People don't believe me when I tell them I'm a magician who makes portals to other worlds. So I tell them I'm a writer instead.

Genesis Quihuis

#32. Don't mention me about your religion! Show me your heart! If you have the heart of an innocent child, you have the best religion, even if you are a nonbeliever!

Mehmet Murat Ildan