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

To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny

Faith is blind belief. Atheism is blind disbelief. No one has all the information needed to take up such fixed positions.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.