Patricia Marx Quotes

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

There was once a philosopher who said, 'I don't believe in God, but I fear him greatly.' That's about where I am.

[I'm] almost positive there is no God.

I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares how we are or what we do.

Question boldly even the existence of God.

I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.

In my experience, the people who call themselves “atheists,” regardless of how they define this term, rarely take the possibility of God’s existence seriously.

It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

Are you never afraid of God's judgement in denying him? Most certainly not. I also deny Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and Brahma, but this causes me no qualms. I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.

I began asking, 'How can we know Christianity is true?' Sadly, none of the adults in my life offered an answer. Eventually I decided Christianity must not have any answers, and I became an agnostic.

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God.... My books are about killing God.

I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.

Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is the kind of God who watches over human affairs, listens to prayers, and tries to guide people to follow His precepts - there is just too much misery and cruelty for that.

As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint.

God, come down, if you're really there - Well, you're the one who claims to care!

The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion. According to Renan, "The day after that on which the world should no longer believe in God, atheists would be the wretchedest of all men."

When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.

I don't say that I don't believe in God because that implies that there is a God for me not to believe in.

You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.

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

An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.