[G]et two-thirds of the states to alter the Constitution; come out with their national religion, and then let the people get their throats ready.
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar. . . Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?
Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.
Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.
There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.
There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
Let no more gods or exploiters be served Let us learn rather to love one another.
Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
Satre found atheism 'cruel', Camus 'dreadful', and Nietzsche 'maddening'. Atheists who consistently try to live without God tend to commit suicide or go insane. Those who are inconsistent live on the ethical or aesthetic shadow of Christian truth while they deny the reality that made the shadow.
One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call it only a reminiscence of one, should you not part with the kiss of peace?
What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
Marking dynamos for repair $10,000. 00-2 hours labor $10. 00; knowing where to mark $9,990. 00.
Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward.
No man is above the law.
I don't believe in God. I believe in man -- in his strength, his possibilities, and his reason.