Nonbeliever Quotes

HIPPOLYTUS: I can't sin against a God I don't believe in. ~ Sarah Kane

I'm simply a nonbeliever and have been forever ... I'm interested in saying, 'Let us discuss the existential question. We are all going to die, that is the end of all consciousness. There is no afterlife. There is no God. Now what do we do.' That's the point where it starts getting interesting to me. ~ David Cronenberg

Objects that don't exist don't exist. If we were to imagine such a thing as an object that didn't exist, it would be that thing that God hated. This is the strongest argument against the nonbeliever. If God didn't exist, he would have to hate himself, and that is obviously nonsense. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever. ~ Christopher Hitchens

Some people believe that everyone will experience judgment day. But it's my understanding that the Judgment Day or Rapture that I'm going to experience, as a nonbeliever, is not going to be the good part. That's the essential difference between the Singularity and what we're usually told about the fate of our eternal souls. ~ Ron Currie Jr.

I was a terrible believer in things, I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was just as searching as I was skeptical. ~ Cheryl Strayed

I am an atheist, but I would never call myself a nonbeliever. I believe in higher powers inside people that can only be activated in a society designed to bring them out. My belief in these powers is so strong that I have organized my life around them, despite the fact that I cannot prove their existence. ~ Danny Katch

Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact. ~ Cormac McCarthy

Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done by a nonbeliever. And here is my second challenge. Can any reader think of a wicked statement made, or an evil action performed, precisely because of religious faith? The second question is easy to answer, is it not? The first - I have been asking it for some time - awaits a convincing reply. By what right, then, do the faithful assume this irritating mantle of righteousness? They have as much to apologize for as to explain. ~ Christopher Hitchens

I would not say I was a nonbeliever; rather, that I gave little if any thought to celestial concerns. It did not seem to me that God, whoever he was, would be the sort of god to take an interest in the minutiae of human affairs, or that this fact released us from the duty to go about our lives in a spirit of decency to others. ~ Justin Cronin

But I am wincing, and somehow look already defeated. Like a nonbeliever already, at six years old. ~ Molly Brodak

Questioning this most dearly held core of the Dutch sense of self not only is felt as a direct attack, it also means that the nonbeliever, the antiracist killjoy, is putting himself or herself above "us," which in itself again runs deeply counter to another strand in the Dutch sense of self: "gelijke monnikken, gelijke kappen" (literally, equal monks, equal cowls), which invokes the deep egalitarian strand in Dutch self-representation. Critical self-reflection, moreover and ironically, is a scarce commodity in a culture that delights in imagining itself as "nothing," "just normal" (Ramdas 1998), without specific characteristics, much less infused with deep racializations. The point of not knowing, racial ignorance, and innocence has long passed. ~ Gloria Wekker

Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever's prayer. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day. ~ Primo Levi

Successful evangelism involves not only harvesting, but sowing and watering, too. We must never think that because a nonbeliever remained unconvinced by our case that our apologetic has failed. For one encounter is not the end of the story. ~ William Lane Craig

My family thought if I spent time in the military, I'd become more reasonable, a bit calmer. But I've always been extreme in what I do - both as a believer and a nonbeliever. ~ Shahin Najafi

The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. ~ Albert Einstein

As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil
well, that's something else. ~ William Peter Blatty

I'm personally a nonbeliever, so I'm struggling with if we really need religion. ~ Frans De Waal

Be a nonbeliever, but never forget to believe in yourself. ~ Debasish Mridha

There is only one religion and that is to love unconditionally. Those who kill in the name of religion are the bigot and biggest nonbeliever. ~ Debasish Mridha

Awakening as a moment of now

Awakening as an experience
Awakening as a moment
that is the same - today, yesterday or tomorrow

Awakening of a Hinduist, of a Buddhist, of a Christian
of a believer or a nonbeliever

Awakening that lives within every single cell

Awakening within no qualities
as emptiness of Consciousness
as direct contact
with love and light and life
experienced
with every breath

Awakening as resting within true nature
as acting from the true nature
as Remembering

Awakening as opening
to the possibility of Now ~ Natasa Nuit Pantovic

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion. ~ Richard Dawkins

You're right, Jen, of course," she capitulated. "I'm sorry. You're going through hell, and I'm pontificating instead of being compassionate," Lynne admitted.
"Pontificating? Interesting choice of words for a nonbeliever," Jennifer chuckled. ~ Mark M. Bello

My challenge: Name an ethical statement or action, made or performed by a person of faith, that could not have been made or performed by a nonbeliever. ~ Christopher Hitchens

You're better off believing in God they'd warn you, just in case. Because you'd hate to arrive at the gates of heaven a nonbeliever and find out the Christians had been right all along. It was a pretty ingenious line of thinking. It almost made me want to go to church. Not enough to actually go, but still. ~ Drew Magary