Pastoral Resources

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

Atheism is the last word of theism.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.