Jean Paul Quotes

I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.

I am a man of lost faiths.

I don't believe in God anymore.

I don't think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to you and everybody else and for me this is always the conflict between an attraction for the Holy and the disbelief in it that we breathe in with the air of the times.

What's the good of not believing? Today it's your wife you don't believe; tomorrow it's God Himself you won't take stock in.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

I really don't believe in magic.

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

If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.

Even the Lord had skeptical members of His party.

I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Christian because of you and I hear you're not a Christian, that's shocking to me.' I don't take these things lightly, but that's who I am. I can't change it.

Revealed religion had no weight with me.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies.

When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.

Sometimes I feel like those born-again folk, always working on their faith, but I'm always working on my atheism. We all have our struggles.

As a scientist, I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation . . . I am an infidel today. I do not believe what had been served to me to believe. I am a doubter, a questioner, a skeptic. When it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.

Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.

I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending.

Richard did not believe in angels, he never had. He was damned if he was going to start now. Still, it was much easier not to believe in something when it was not actually looking directly at you and saying your name.

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.

The infidelity that springs from the heart is not to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences of Christianity; argument did not cause, and argument will not remove it.

Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my fog with a heavenly ray. And for this I thank God; for all have doubts; many deny; but doubts or denials, few along with them, have intuitions. Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye.