Billy Graham Quotes

Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a different look about them.

Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before.

As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.

I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.

Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.

The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life. The reason to be an atheist is simply that there is no God and we would prefer to live in full recognition of that, accepting the consequences, even if it makes us less happy.

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.

At the heart of liberalism really is a hatred for God and a belief that government should replace God.

I don't believe in God.

I think that technology is essentially a continuation of a divestment of theological power that's been happening since The Enlightenment. It's the idea that God can see and hear everything.

Socialism is not merely the labor question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken by atheism today., the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to Heaven from earth but to set up Heaven on Earth

There's been so much rhetoric in the past decade about how important religion is to being a good person, for people to say they don't believe in God.

Many good people practice no faith at all.

The first requisite for the people's happiness is the abolition of religion.

I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to man. But my religious feelings were immediately replaced by the spirit of universal charity — not for a sect, or a party, or for a country or a colour — but for the human race, and with a real and ardent desire to do good.