There Is No God Quotes - Page 5

• A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  Albert Einstein

  Sympathy, God, Death

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.39, Broadway Books

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• Each of us can discuss God inasmuch as he has known the grace of the Holy Spirit; for how can we think of or discuss what we haven't seen, or haven't head of, or don't know? The saints say that they have seen God, but there are people who say that there is no God. Clearly, they say this because they haven't known God, but this does not at all mean that He is not. The saints speak of that which they have truly seen and know.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is God's messenger.

  Saddam Hussein

  Religion Of Islam, Messengers, Quran

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• Those of us who have transcended mythical belief systems know without any doubt that there is no God up in the sky. But when we awaken to what I call the evolutionary impulse - the mysterious passion to evolve, to become, to develop on every level-we rediscover who God is.

  Andrew Cohen

  Passion, Sky, Doubt

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• Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

  C. S. Lewis

  Atheist, Dark, Simple

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

  Carl Sagan

  Death, Witty, Atheist

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

  Bertrand Russell

  Death, God, Spiritual

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.554, Psychology Press

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• I am persuaded that men think there is no God because they wish there were none. They find it hard to believe in God, and to go on in sin, so they try to get an easy conscience by denying his existence.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• Please, with the God talk. Hate to break it to you, but there is no God.

  Howard Stern

  Hate, Mad Men, Atheism

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• He was near tears, 'Who do I blame?' he kept asking me. 'There is no God.I can only blame myself.'" The Reb's face tightened, as if in pain. "That," he said, softly, "is a terrible self-indictment." Worse than an unanswered prayer? "Oh yes. It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody's out there.

  Mitch Albom

  Prayer, Pain, Thinking

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Atheist, Fear

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

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• The Communist torturers often said, 'There is no God, no hereafter, no punishment for evil. We can do what we wish.' I have heard one torturer even say, 'I thank God, in whom I don't believe, that I have lived to this hour when I can express all the evil in my heart.' He expressed it in unbelievable brutality and torture inflected on prisoners.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Believe, Heart, Punishment

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• You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.

  Joseph Stalin

  Atheism, Positive Atheism, Knows

  "Landmarks in the Life of Stalin" by Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, (p. 90), 1942.

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• There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves.

  Bruno Dumont

  Atheist, People, Saint

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• Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.

  Lucretius

  Brother, Hate, Atheism

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1900). “Lucretius on Life and Death: In the Metre of Omar Khayyam”

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• Some people say: "There is no God; because, if there was a God, God would stop all the suffering." Nonsense! God is oblivious to suffering. God is beyond suffering. That's what makes God, God, by definition.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, People, Suffering

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• To just burn out, to give up just because things don't go your way, to assume that there is no God, no infinite light - I think that's pretty petty, personally.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Giving Up, Thinking

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• An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wise, Lying, Men

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• The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his atoms and resolves him back to gas and air. But the revolutionary, below in the crowd, hears, and only translates what he hears thus to his brethren: 'Let us drink while we may; property is robbery; this life is all; let us kill and eat; there is no God.

  Ouida

  Men, Air, Soul

  Ouida (1890*). “A village commune. Idalia. Silver chimes and golden fetters. "Deadly dash."”

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• It is as clear as the sun and as evident as the day that there is no God and that there can be none.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Atheism, Sun, Clear

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• If there is no God, the labels 'good' and 'evil' are merely opinions. They are substitutes for 'I like it' and 'I don't like it.' They are not objective realities.

  Dennis Prager

  Reality, Evil, Labels

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• I got some news for you. One, there is no Jesus. Two, there is no God. Three, mind your own business and everything works out.

  Ed Asner

  Jesus, Two, Work Out

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• It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of goodness. How could a spiritless, soul-less, cross-less, Godless universe become the center of faith, purity, sacrifice, and martyrdom? How can decency be the decent thing if there is no God? Since God is love, why should we be surprised that want of it should end in pain, hate, broken hearts, and war?

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Atheist, Pain, Hate

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• There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.

  Rajneesh

  Lying, Men

  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Osho (1986). “The Last Testament: Interviews with the World Press”, Rajneesh Foundation International

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• Believing there is no God means the suffering I've seen in my family and indeed all the suffering in the world isn't caused by any omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent force that isn't bothered to help or is just testing us, but rather something we all may be able to help others with in the future. No God means the possibility of less suffering in the future.

  Penn Jillette

  Believe, Mean, Helping Others

  "There Is No God". "Morning Edition" with Jay Allison, www.npr.org. November 21, 2005.

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