Giacomo Casanova Quotes

I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

In reality, many people let go of religion later in life.

I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.

It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

I gave up religious thinking a long time ago and am really just an agnostic now.

I don't believe in God anymore.

After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.

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

When you walk away from God, and you walk away from Christ, you're basically uprooting the very foundations of being. So I don't think there is an easy way to do that. Even for the guy who becomes an atheist out of it, it's messy. It ain't pretty.

The existence of a single atheist does not disprove the existence of God.

I don't believe in God in the way I often see described by religion.

You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know.

I'm a Roman Catholic. Or was. I was brought up that way and used to say my prayers every night, but I don't pray to God any more. I might use the usual phrases I picked up from my parents, 'Oh, if God spares me next year...' or 'Please God...' but they're only phrases.

When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.

A pope going through a faith crisis would be funny to see.

To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God.

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

I'm an agnosto-theist.

You believe in God, then you don't believe anymore and when you have a big problem, you pray anyway.

I imagine the life of an atheistic praying mantis to be rather torturous.

I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.