- I
should
like to see a man sober
in his habits, moderate, chaste, just in his dealings, assert that
there
is no God; he would speak at least without interested motives; but such
a man is not to be found.—La Bruyère.
- An
Atheist-laugh's a poor exchange
for Deity offended! —Burns.
- The
fool
hath said in his heart,
There is no God.—Psalm 14:1.
- No one
is
so much alone in the
world as a denier of God.—Richter.
- When
men
live as if there were
no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none; and
then
they endeavor to persuade themselves so.—Tillotson.
- Atheism
is
the result of ignorance
and pride, of strong sense and feeble reasons, of good eating and ill
living.—Jeremy
Collier.
- Atheism
can benefit no class
of people,—neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the
prosperous,
whose joys it renders insipid.—Chateaubriand.
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| Kircher,
the astronomer,
having an acquaintance who denied the existence of a Supreme Being,
took
the following method to convince him of his error. Expecting him on a
visit,
he placed a handsome celestial globe in a part of the room where it
could
not escape the notice of his friend, who, on observing it, inquired
whence
it came, and who was the maker.
"It was not
made by any person,"
said the astronomer.
"That is
impossible," replied
the sceptic; "you surely jest."
Kircher
then took occasion
to reason with his friend upon his own atheistical
principles,
explaining to him that he had adopted this plan with a design to show
him
the fallacy of his scepticism.
"You will
not," said he,
"admit that this small body originated in mere chance, and yet you
contend
that those heavenly bodies, to which it bears only a faint and
diminutive
resemblance, came into existence without author or design."
He pursued
this chain of
reasoning till his friend was totally confounded, and cordially
acknowledged
the absurdity of his notions.
By night an
atheist half
believes a God.—Young.
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