By night an atheist half believes a God. [ Young ]

No atheist, as such, can be a true friend. [ Bentley ]

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. [ Psalm xiv. 1 ]

An atheist-laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended! [ Burns ]

No one is so much alone in the universe as an athiest. [ Richter ]

Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man. [ Bacon ]

Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism. [ Horace Mann ]

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

There are proselytes from atheism, but none from superstition. [ Junius ]

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Poetry is inestimable as a lonely faith, a lonely protest in the uproar of atheism. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because His ordinary works convince it. [ Bacon ]

Ingersoll's atheism can never become an institution; it can never be more than a destitution. [ Robert Collyer ]

There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot. [ Emmons ]

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride, of strong sense and feeble reasons, of good eating and ill living. [ Jeremy Collier ]

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

The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material. [ Pascal ]

Men are atheistical because they are first vicious, and question the truth of Christianity because they bane the practice. [ South ]

An atheist is one of the most daring beings in creation, - a condemner of God, who explodes His laws by denying His existence. [ John Foster ]

The thing formed says that nothing formed it; and that which is made is, while that which made it is not! The folly is infinite. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

There are few men so obstinate in their atheism whom a pressing danger will not reduce to an acknowledgment of the Divine power. [ Plato ]

It is a fine observation of Plato, in his Laws, that atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of the understanding. [ Wm. Fleming ]

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 ]

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. [ Hare ]

The great atheists are, indeed, the hypocrites, which are ever handling holy things, but without feeling; so as they must need be cauterized in the end. [ Bacon ]

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction. [ Colton ]

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. [ Bacon ]