Atheism is, I suppose, the supreme example of a simple faith.
Where All Roads Lead (1922); this is often misquoted as "If there were no God, there would be no atheists."
Kontext: Atheism is, I suppose, the supreme example of a simple faith. The man says there is no God; if he really says it in his heart, he is a certain sort of man so designated in Scripture [i. e. a fool, Ps 53:2]. But, anyhow, when he has said it, he has said it; and there seems to be no more to be said. The conversation seems likely to languish. The truth is that the atmosphere of excitement, by which the atheist lived, was an atmosphere of thrilled and shuddering theism, and not of atheism at all; it was an atmosphere of defiance and not of denial. Irreverence is a very servile parasite of reverence; and has starved with its starving lord. After this first fuss about the merely aesthetic effect of blasphemy, the whole thing vanishes into its own void. If there were not God, there would be no atheists.
„Pro ty, kteří se narodili do ateismu, je to víra jako každá jiná.“
Zdroj: [Jiří, Leschtina, Tomáš Halík: Zemanovi přirostla maska přihlouplého strýce, Aktuálně.cz, http://nazory.aktualne.cz/rozhovory/tomas-halik-zemanovi-prirostla-maska-prihloupleho-stryce/r~2c98830c10dd11e48ade002590604f2e/, 2014-07-26, 2015-10-23]
„Pravda ve věcech víry je jednoduše názor, který přežil.“
Zdroj: [Gallagher, Michael Paul, Nová prohlídka „nového ateismu“, teologicketexty.cz, 2013, 2014-11-28, http://www.teologicketexty.cz/casopis/2013-1/Nova-prohlidka-noveho-ateismu.html]
„Dobrý příklad je nejlepším kázáním“
„Jednoduchou modlitbou víry, můžeš Jemu dnes dát svůj život.“
„Pokud jde o víru v lepší časy, jsem ateista.“
Originál: (en) Nothing gives greater advantage to atheism and infidelity than the carnality of those that make religion a servant to their sensual appetites and secular interests.
Zdroj: [Henry, Matthew, Commentary to the Whole Bible: Matthew, Chapter XXII., http://www.ccel.org/ccel/henry/mhc5.Matt.xxiii.html, 6.9.2006, 1.2.2015, Christian Classic Ethereal Library, angličtina]
„Nevíra zničí i ty nejlepší z nás; víra zachrání i ty nejhorší z nás.“
Originál: (en) Unbelief will destroy the best of us; faith will save the worst of us.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles Haddon, The Present Truth: A Collection of Sermons Preached at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Passmore & Alabaster, New York, 1883, 378, 183, angličtina]
