Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before.

Whenever a nation turns its back on God or beings to live as if He does not exist, it begins to show up in its citizens' disregard for human life.

There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.

Rather than seeking to stem the tide, our educators, politicians, and judges aid the advance of godlessness. This cannot continue if our children and grandchildren are to live in a country that still recognises God and upholds religious liberty.

The overwhelming majority of social scientists were irreligious or even anti-religious. This led them to believe that religion was a disappearing and unimportant factor in human affairs.

Within my own lifetime, I have seen the most ferocious assaults on Christian faith and morals; first on the part of the intellectual community, and then on the part of the government... the federal government has not even tried to conceal its hostility to religion.

A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.

Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles.

Can it be that we, too, are ready to embrace the foul concepts of atheism? Somebody is tampering with America's soul, I leave it to you who that somebody is.

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

A secular worldview hostile to biblical values has overrun our culture and permeated our government.

I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind.

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

I don't believe in God anymore.

Hostility to religion is having an effect. In 1963, the number of Americans who said that they believed the Bible is literally true was 65%. Today, the number has dropped to 32%.

If the polls are right, our Judeo-Christian heritage is no longer the foundation of our values. We have become a post-Christian society.

The signs of the antichrist spirit are clear. They emerge in this fashion: A significant minority then an actual majority, of the people in a society begin to throw off the restraints of history, then the restraints of written law, then accepted standards of morality, then established religion, and, finally God Himself.

There can be nothing more abominable than religion.

The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth .

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values — is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.

A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade.

God is dead not because He doesn't exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn't.

The way I understand it is the communists are in, the atheists are in, the agnostics are in, but religion is out.

Freedom of religion has been replaced by freedom from religion.