Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?

Irreligion. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.

How to trap an atheist: Serve him a fine meal, then ask him if he believes there is a cook.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors, and where they separate, depend upon it, 'Tis for no other cause but quietness sake.

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain all that he can't see.

An atheist is a person who has no visible means of support

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.

The atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.