But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.

For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.

One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.

Neither do I think that I ever put any dishonour upon you.

I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence.

The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews.

In considering found that the papists did not deny him to be come in the flesh, nor we did not deny him - who then was antichrist? Was the Turk antichrist only?

I have been guilty of wrong thinking.

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.

But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.

Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?

They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business.

If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall yield.

I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge.

How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?

I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.

But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

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

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.

Atheism is the last word of theism.

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

Atheism is having a heyday in the born-again United States.

I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.