Now that I am a Christian I do not have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.
– C.S. Lewis
Atheism | Christianity
A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.
– C.S. Lewis
Atheism
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!
– Jeremy Taylor
Atheism | Foolishness | Creation
Atheists themselves used to be very comfortable in maintaining that the universe is eternal and uncaused. The problem is that they can no longer hold that position because modern evidence that the universe started with the Big Bang. So they can’t legitimately object when I make the same claim about God-he is eternal and he is uncaused.
– William Lane Craig
Evolution | Atheism | Creation
Many an atheist is a believer without knowing it just as many a believer is an atheist without knowing it. You can sincerely believe there is no God and live as though there is. You can sincerely believe there is a God and live as though there isn’t.
– Frederick Buechner
Atheism
Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
– Blaise Pascal
Atheism
Take a nation, tell the people there is no God, tell them there is nothing beyond the grave, and they will lose heart, lose their morale. They will become such a shiftless, lazy, apathetic, lethargic people that you won’t be able to get half of them to work. Many will not be motivated by anything.
– Shelton Smith
Atheism
A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
– Francis Bacon
Philosophy | Atheism
I was being foolish. An atheist can’t stand behind their assertion that God doesn’t exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.
– Kirk Cameron
Atheism | Foolishness
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. Lewis
Atheism
The use or abuse of Christianity in contradiction to the very message of the gospel reveals not the gospel for what it is, but the heart of man. That is why atheism is so bankrupt as a view of life, for it miserably fails to deal with the human condition as it really is.
– Ravi Zacharias
Christianity | Atheism | The Gospel
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.
– Francis Bacon
Atheism | The Heart
In other words, they decided right from the start that there’s no God, and they’re setting out to try to prove that there’s no God, That’s their bias to start with.
– Ken Ham
Atheism
If anybody wants to believe they’re the descendants of a primate, they’re welcome to do it.
– Mike Huckabee
Atheism
Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman–they don’t want to.
– John Hagee
Atheism
In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.
– Hannah More
Atheism | God
Men tell us sometimes there is no such thing as an atheist. There must be. There are some men to whom it is true that there is no God. They cannot see God because they have no eye. They have only an abortive organ, atrophied by neglect.
– Henry Drummond
Atheism
If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.
– C.S. Lewis
Atheism
If God does not exist, everything is permissible.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
Atheism
Although God believers don’t need evolution to be false, atheists need evolution to be true.
– Ann Coulter
Atheism | Evolution
Atheism cheapens everything it touches-look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.
– Peter Kreeft
Atheism
It is hard to have patience with people who say “There is no death” or “Death doesn’t matter.” There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn’t matter.
– C.S. Lewis
Death | Atheism
In short, I didn’t become a Christian because God promised I would have an even happier life than I had as an atheist. He never promised any such thing. Indeed, following him would inevitably bring divine demotions in the eyes of the world. Rather, I became a Christian because the evidence was so compelling that Jesus really is the one-and-only Son of God who proved his divinity by rising from the dead. That meant following him was the most rational and logical step I could possibly take.
– Lee Strobel
Atheism | Resurrection
To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, “I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge.”
– Ravi Zacharias
Atheism | Knowledge
If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don’t feel at home there?
– C.S. Lewis
Atheism | Evolution
It’s the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they’re all equal, and that all creatures are equal.
– Tim LaHaye
Atheism | Evolution
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
– G.K. Chesterton
Atheism
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. Lewis
The Bible | Atheism | Youth
Atheism has become a major threat to the church. New Atheists tend to be articulate and belligerent. They are aggressively engaging in “atheist evangelism,” determined to stamp out every vestige of belief in God, which they insist is not only “stupid” but “wicked.”
– Dave Hunt
Atheism
If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible that main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: ‘Men had forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.’
– Assorted Authors
Atheism
The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face.
– Thomas Adams
Hypocrisy | Atheism
Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.
– Peter Kreeft
Atheism
The statement that ‘God is dead’ comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But the good Lord has not died of this; He who dwells in the heaven laughs at them.
– Karl Barth
God | Atheism | America
Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to be circular, tentative, and uncertain.
– Alister McGrath
Atheism
The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.
– C.S. Lewis
Atheism
Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
– C.S. Lewis
Atheism
For all their raving, ranting, and name-calling, these atheists will stand before God one day–and they will exist for eternity, though sadly they will be separated from God unless they repent and receive the free gift of salvation.
– Ken Ham
Atheism | Salvation
Divisions in the church always breed atheism in the world.
– Thomas Manton
Church | Atheism
If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust?
– Tim Keller
Atheism
Monkeys are superior to men in this: When a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
– Assorted Authors
Atheism | Men
Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
– C.S. Lewis
Atheism
It is the black work of an ungodly man or an atheist that God is not in all his thoughts. What comfort can be had in the being of God without thinking of him with reverence and delight? A God forgotten is as good as no God to us.
– Stephen Charnock
Atheism | Apathy
By night an atheist half-believes in God.
– Assorted Authors
Atheism
It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope.
– Richard Sibbes
Atheism
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere “opiate of the people” have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.
– C.S. Lewis
Christianity | Atheism
It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian.
– Lee Strobel
Atheism
Atheism leads to numerous absurdities promoted by otherwise intelligent people.
– Dave Hunt
Atheism
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.
– Jeremy Taylor
Atheism
If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.
– William Gurnall
Atheism
It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes Him no God, the other a deformed, unlovely, and a detestable God. He that saith God is not holy speaks much worse that he that saith there is no God at all.
– Stephen Charnock
Atheism
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.
– C.S. Lewis
Atheism
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
– C.S. Lewis
Atheism | Youth
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark.
– C.S. Lewis
Atheism
I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.
– Francis Schaeffer
Atheism
To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.
– Assorted Authors
Atheism
To reverence the impersonal creation instead of the personal God who created us is a perversion designed for escaping moral accountability to the Creator. God indicts those who worship the creation instead of its Creator (Rom 1:18-23); and warns of the corruption of morals and behavior which results.
– Dave Hunt
Atheism | Heresy | Creation
Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it’s just barely possible that God exists.
– Peter Kreeft
Atheism
I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.
– C.S. Lewis
Atheism | Salvation | Repentance
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
– George Herbert
Satan | Atheism
If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.”
– G.K. Chesterton
Atheism
Darwinism’s atheism prevents science from knowing why things are as they are. Without God there is no answer to the why for anything.
– Dave Hunt
Atheism | God
I’m noticing an exciting trend around the country: a resurgence of interest in Christian apologetics (the defense of the faith). This is a reaction to the current attacks on the essentials of Christianity that are coming from militant atheists, radical professors, and Internet gadflies.
– Lee Strobel
Atheism
An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam’s descendents.
– A. W. Pink
Atheism | God | Theology
The antitheist is quick to excoriate all religious belief by generically laying the blame at the door of all who claim to be religious, without distinction. By the same measure, why is there not an equal enthusiasm to distribute blame for violence engendered by some of the irreligious?
– Ravi Zacharias
Atheism | Religion