Madalyn Murray O'Hair Quotes

I'm looking for 100 percent proof that there's a spiritual realm, and I ain't seen nothing in my 43 years of living but humans. So until that day, I'll be waiting.

I haven’t met God and I haven’t been to heaven, so I’m skeptical.

I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't go to hell.

I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.

I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it's simply meaningless. We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live.

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

God knows there's a heaven.

It sounds to me, young one," Haddek said, "that you are searching for something that cannot be found." "The truth?" Sazed said. "No," Haddek replied. "A religion that requires no faith of its believers.

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.

I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.

Sometimes, an inability to believe in Satan reflects a larger inability to believe in a spiritual plane at all.

I believe in Heaven. I don't believe that this is it, and then we're done.

I think about death all the time. I know there's nothing out there, but I'm curious. There's a 300 billion-to-one chance that there might be an energy that goes somewhere else, but I doubt it.

If you are going to go to Heaven, I'm going to Heaven. But I don't believe in Heaven.

Death does not exist.

I don't believe in an afterlife.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.