Charles Taze Russell Quotes

Losing my faith was the most spiritual thing that ever happened to me.

I was born a Catholic and now I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm something but I'm not a believer any more.

I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.

Why isn't there a book about someone losing their faith and it being a beautiful experience?

Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject.

My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

I grew up a faithful person. I never lost faith. I prayed every day all throughout my life. But at some point in life, my faith became fairly abstract. And I lost this belief that we have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice - cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.

In my most extreme fluctuations I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God ... I think that generally (& more and more so as I grow older) but not always, that an agnostic would be the most correct description of my state of mind.

These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless.

Most of the time I ask, "Why have I forsaken God?" I look at myself and ask that question when probably the better question is to say, "Where are you God, and I'll let you in." Instead of thinking that you've abandoned God, push yourself in the other direction like, "God, how can I get closer?"

The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.

I didn't have a rigidly enforced religious parental pressure, but I did have a few years in my mid-teens of turning to religion, and it was very meaningful to me.

I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist.

God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us.

When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.

Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels like a mean joke, like God's advisers are Muammar Qaddafi and Phyllis Schlafly.

It is hard for many people to give up the religion in which they were born; to admit that their fathers were utterly mistaken, and that the sacred records of their country are but collections of myths and fables.

A nominal Christian often discovers in suffering that his faith has been in his church, denomination, or family tradition, but not Christ. As he faces evil and suffering, he may lose his faith. But that’s actually a good thing. I have sympathy for people who lose their faith, but any faith lost in suffering wasn’t a faith worth keeping.

Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.

It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries (aged 17).

Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.

I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.