Quotes About Agnosticism

His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who were members of the Graf Zeppelin Club or shopped at the Chinese department stores, for their mastery of an exotic foreign ritual.

I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism

I don't believe in God but I do believe in Larry David.

Sooner or later you just figure out there are some guys who don't believe in God and they can prove He doesn't exist, and some other guys who do believe in God and they can prove He does exist, and the argument stopped being about God a long time ago and now it's about who is smarter, and honestly I don't care. I don't believe I will ever walk away from God for intellectual reasons. Who knows anything anyway?

I rightly pass for an atheist.

Ayer may be considered a practical atheist: one who sees no reason to worship an invisible deity.

I believe nothing. Nothing whatever.

Most people don't even try to learn the ways of the kingdom; they just go about their days with a practical agnosticism, hoping things work out, tossing up prayers like they hope to score on a Jesus lottery ticket.

By now, he was also a 'Protestant Atheist', which he remained all his life.

we no longer believe in God, but hope nevertheless for miracles—though

It takes more faith to be an atheist than to believe in God.

I don't have enough faith to be an Atheist.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

America has become politically and culturally agnostic, and the Christian faith in the minds of many has come to represent intolerance.

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.

Ok to appoint atheists or agnostics-no litmus test of faith.

The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.

Thank God in an atheist.

It was around Clifford's era that Thomas Huxley coined the term agnostic, which did not exist before the nineteenth century. Agnostics, Huxley said, "totally refuse to commit" to either denying or affirming the supernatural.

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

I would be disappointed if you had not become an atheist, and I read pleasantly that you have, in your age and wisdom, accepted agnosticism the way you'd take a cookie on a full stomach.

Every agnostic has a minister, Mike. Otherwise, they's be atheists.

I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.