Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

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.

Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of - the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him

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.

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

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.

But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.

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

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.

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

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

A deist is someone who has not lived long enough to be an atheist.

Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?

I don't believe in God anymore.

I grew up an Orthodox Jew, and now I'm not an Orthodox Jew. So I have sympathy for people who lose their faith.

Sometimes my life just don't make sense at all. The mountains looks so big and my faith just seems so small.

You can't get through seminary and come out believing in God!

I began asking, 'How can we know Christianity is true?' Sadly, none of the adults in my life offered an answer. Eventually I decided Christianity must not have any answers, and I became an agnostic.

If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?

I’ll never speak to God again.

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

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.

God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.