Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Atheism

• Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Daughter, Religious, Nature

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.196, University of Georgia Press

• Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Prayer, Humor

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.96, Courier Corporation

• Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Faith, Atheist

  The Devil's Dictionary

• The place whereon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods. The word is now seldom used, except with reference to the sacrifice of their liberty and peace by a male and a female fool.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sacrifice, Atheism, Liberty

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.571, Library of America

• A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Atheism, Gabriel, Mecca

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.37, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Damning, with bell, book and candle / Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. / A rite permitting Satan to enslave him / Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Book, Forever, Atheism

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.73, University of Georgia Press

• A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Soul, Atheism, Female

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.113, University of Georgia Press

• A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked imposture, contradictory to the Holy Scriptures.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Christian, Believe, Book

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.68, Courier Corporation

• The god of the world's leading religion.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Atheism, World, Consumerism

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.221, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Thinking, Pigs

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.164, 谷月社

• Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Religious, Tolerance, Infidelity

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2697, Delphi Classics

• In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it was somewhat marred by the sad sincerity of his conviction that although some are foredoomed to perdition, others are predestined to salvation.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Joy, Atheism, Doctrine

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.182, 谷月社

• Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Religion, Atheism, World

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.115, 谷月社

• Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Atheism, Invisible, Clairvoyant

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.36, University of Georgia Press

• I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fear, Heart, Atheism

  Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, David E. Schultz (1998). “A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography”, p.177, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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