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“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.”

Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“What do you conceive God to be like? Some would say to believe at all in a personal God requires a giant leap of faith - but I am convinced that belief in God is a far more reasonable position than atheism. Nature, the personal experience of literally billions of people, and something innate in the heart of man all testify to the existence of God.”

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Author:George Sweeting

“We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.”

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Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

“If you must believe in anything, believe in yourselves, in your senses, in your minds. To accept a religious creed is to accept another mind in place of your own and generally contrary to your own. When religious belief comes in brains go out”

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Author:Marilla Ricker

“There are absolute atheists ... Absolute atheism is in no way a mere absence of belief in God. It is rather a refusal of God, a fight against God, a challenge to God.”

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Author:Jacques Maritain

“You know, on the spectrum of religious belief, there is atheism - these are people that don't believe. There's theism - these are the believers and agnostics say it's beyond comprehension that the whole issue of God us unknowable. You might be interested to know that perhaps the greatest mind of the 20th century Einstein, the one time that he actually used one of these appellations was in a letter about five years before he died and he referred to himself as an agnostic.”

“The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.”

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Book:The second Penguin Krishnamurti reader

Source: The second Penguin Krishnamurti reader

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.”

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Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“They think that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors, and they do not know that it is in the soul that things always happen, and that the world does not end at their housedoor.”

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Author:Maurice Maeterlinck

“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”

“All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.”

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Author:Ulrich Beck