Atheist Quotes

How many times have we heard - all of us, around the neighborhood and elsewhere - "but to be a Catholic like that, it's better to be an atheist." It is that, scandal. You destroy. You beat down. And this happens every day, it's enough to see the news on TV, or to read the papers. In the papers there are so many scandals, and there is also the great publicity of the scandals. And with the scandals there is destruction.

Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God.

Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.

The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!