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Atheism: Quotations from Burning Words

The thing formed says that nothing formed it; and that which is made is, while that which made it is not! The folly is infinite.— JEREMY TAYLOR

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy,— DEAN SWIFT

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.— FRANCIS BACON

Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man.— FRANCIS BACON

Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders insipid, nor the soldier, of whom it makes a coward, nor the woman whose beauty and sensibility it mars, nor the mother, who has a son to lose, nor the rulers of men, who have no surer pledge of the fidelity of their subjects than religion.— CHATEAUBRIAND

Ingersoll's atheism can never become an institution; it can never be more than a destitution. -— ROBERT COLLYER

They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.— FRANCIS BACON

No one is so much alone in the universe as a denier of God. With an orphaned heart, which has lost the greatest of fathers, he stands mourning by the immeasurable corpse of nature, no longer moved and sustained by the Spirit of the universe.— JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life. On the contrary, in the abominable worship of atheism, human woes are the incense, death is the priest, a coffin the altar, and annihilation the Deity.— CHATEAUBRIAND

Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.— STILLINGFLEET

I want you to have courage to declare yourself to be an atheist, or to serve your god with all your might and power in perfect consecration, whatever or whoever that god may be — whether it be the crocodile of the Nile or our Jehovah, "God over all blessed for evermore."— CHARLES F. DEEMS

Practically every man is an atheist, who lives without God in the world.— GUESSES AT TRUTH