ATHEISM
Addison, Joseph
To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.
Bacon, Francis
Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man.
A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further.—But when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because His ordinary works convince it.
Bancroft, George
Atheism is the folly of the metaphysician, not the folly of human nature.
Blackie, John Stuart
An irreligious man, a speculative or a practical atheist, is as a sovereign, who voluntarily takes off his crown and declares himself unworthy to reign.
Bruyere, Jean de la
If a man of sober habits, moderate, chaste, and just in all his dealings should assert there is no God, he would at least speak without interested motives; but such a man is not to be found.
Cheever, George B.
A traveller amid the scenery of the Alps, surrounded by the sublimest demonstrations of God's power, had the hardihood to write against his name, in an album kept for visitors, "An atheist." Another who followed, shocked and indignant at the inscription, wrote beneath it, "If an atheist, a fool; if not, a liar!"
Collier, Jeremy
Atheism, if it exists, is the result of ignorance and pride, of strong sense and feeble reason, of good eating and ill living.—It is the plague of society, the corrupter of morals, and the underminer of property.
Colton, Caleb C.
The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are health, wealth, and power.
Dryden, John
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph, make atheists of mankind.
Fergus, Henry
Atheism is never the error of society, in any stage or circumstance whatever. —In the belief of a Deity savage and sage have alike agreed.—The great error has been, not the denial of one God, but the belief of many; but polytheism has been a popular and poetical, rather than a philosophical error.
Foster, John
There are innumerable souls that would resent the charge of the fool's atheism, yet daily deny God in very deed.
The atheist is one of the most daring beings in creation—a contemner of God who explodes his laws by denying his existence.
Glynn, Robert
The atheist is one who fain would pull God from his throne, and in the place of heaven's eternal king set up the phantom chance.
Herbert, Lord Edward
Whoever considers the study of anatomy can never be an atheist.
Hitchcock, Roswell Dwight
Plato was right in calling atheism a disease.—The human intellect in its healthy action, holds it for certain that there is a Great Being over us, invisible, infinite, ineffable, but of real, solid personality, who made and governs us, and who made and governs all things.
Miller, Hugh
Atheism is the death of hope, the suicide of the soul.
The footprint of the savage in the sand is sufficient to prove the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God though his hand is impressed on the entire universe.
More, Hannah
In agony or danger, no nature is atheist.—The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.
Plato
Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to the acknowledgment of a divine power.
Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding.
Pope, Alexander
Atheists put on a false courage in the midst of their darkness and misapprehensions, like children who when they fear to go in the dark, will sing or whistle to keep up their courage.
Stowe, Mrs. Harriet Beecher
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.
Taylor, Jeremy
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster? To see rare effects, and no cause; a motion, without a mover; a circle, without a centre; a time, without an eternity; a second, without a first: these are things so against philosophy and natural reason, that he must be a beast in understanding who can believe in them. The thing formed, says that nothing formed it; and that which is made, is, while that which made it is not! This folly is infinite.
