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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei1564–1642Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Out of My Later Years (1950), Ch. 51 “The Goal of Human Existence” (1943)
- Intelligence
- Thinking
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book III, Chapter 10, “Hope”
The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything.
ECEmile CammaertsOften credited to G. K. Chesterton
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
Gene Roddenberry1921–1991
- Anti-God
The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936What I Saw In America
- America
- Freedom
But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Upon proclaiming a National Fast Day (30 March 1863)
- Pride
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenatrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties⁠—this knowledge, this feeling … that is the core of the true religious sent iment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself amoung profoundly religious men.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Mein Weltbild (My World-view) (1931)
In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.
Douglas Adams1952–2001
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963A Grief Observed (1961), Pt. IV
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
CCChapman Cohen1868–1954Pamphlet The Devil, quoted in Gordon Stein An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism (Prometheus Books, 1980), p. 258.
- Anti-God
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book II, Chapter 3, “The Shocking Alternative”
For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.
Franz Werfel1890–1945Often credited to Unattributed
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Robert Frost1874–1963In the Clearing (1962), “Forgive, O Lord”
- Forgiveness
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Notes on the State of Virginia (1785), Query XVIII (Richmond, 1853), pp. 174–175