It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. ~ Francis Bacon If you can't believe in God, chances are your God is too small. ~ James Phillips During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it. ~ Captain J. G. Stedman If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough. ~ Harold Macmillan What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels. ~ Boris Pasternak No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve. ~ Hector Hugh Munro An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident. ~ Francis Thompson Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead? ~ John Updike Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man. ~ Francis Bacon Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property. ~ Jeremy Collier A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usually results in a belief in anything. ~Arthur Lynch The only atheism is the denial of truth. ~Arthur Lynch He who never thirsts for God here, will thirst for Him before he has been dead a minute. ~ B. North The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power. ~ C C Colton Atheist's don't exist. If you ask anyone why they are an atheist they will proceed to explain their religion of non belief. ~ Monksarnn An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief. ~ Franklin P. Jones To doubt is not sin, but to be contented to remain in doubt when God has provided "many infallible proofs" to cure it, is. ~ Irwin H. Linton 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. ~ Hare No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account. ~ Mathew Henry