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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning…
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity
A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere⁠—‘Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,’ as Herbert says, ‘fine nets and stratagems.’ God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Surprised by Joy (1955), Ch. XII: “Guns and Good Company”
If there is a God, atheism must strike Him as less of an insult than religion.
Goncourt brothersJanuary 24, 1868; translation from Robert Baldick (ed. and trans.) Pages from the Goncourt Journal (London: Oxford University Press, 1962) p. 135.
- Religion
It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. For the duel is deadly; and any agnostic who wishes to be anything more than a Nihilist must sympathize with one version of nature or the other.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Victorian Age in Literature (1913), Ch. II: The Great Victorian Novelists (p. 73)
If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Where All Roads Lead
To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Spectator (1711–1714), No. 185 (2 October 1711).
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
Heywood Broun1888–1939“A New Preface to an Old Story”, Broun’s Nutmeg, August 19, 1939
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Often credited to Dante Gabriel Rossetti
An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.
FJFranklin D. Jones1879–1967
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up⁠—they have no holidays.
Henny Youngman1906–1998
- Holidays
To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.
Woody Allenborn 1935Stardust Memories (1980).
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
John Buchan1875–1940Often credited to Fulton J. Sheen
How else can you fight God but to pretend He doesn’t exist?
CBChris Bowyer
The atheist has no hope.
JCJ.F. Clarke1810–1888
Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man.
Francis Bacon1561–1626Sir Francis Bacon, Essays (1625), 16, “Of Atheism”.