Nathan Englander 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 deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

As a teenager and a student, I totally cast away the Christian faith. I just believed it was stupid, and only stupid people could believe it. I actually became an anti-Christian, and very antagonistic.

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.

Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?

I went to America to convert the Indians, but, oh, who shall convert me? Who, what, is he that will deliver me from this evil heart of unbelief?

I'm an agnostic trending toward atheist and resist, in particular, Christian interpretations and imagery.

I don't believe in God anymore.

Some folks run from the doubt and go backward. You try for all the spiritual Band-Aids you can find... when actually, what you need to do is press forward, to accept those doubts and work through them.

I no longer believe that the Bible is the literal and infallible word of God. And I don't believe in God as a figure in the sky listening to your prayers, things like that.

For most of my life I didn't believe in God. Who had time?

Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.

As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.

When I approached God at that time, I hardly had a living faith in Him. The agnostic was in me, the atheist was in me, the sceptic was in me and I was not absolutely sure that there was a God at all. I did not feel His presence. Yet something drew me to the truth of the Vedas, the truth of the Gita, the truth of the Hindu religion.

I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me.

I was in prison and I was an atheist. I didn't believe in anything.

If the thought ever comes to you that everything that you have thought about God is mistaken and that there is no God, do not be dismayed. It happens to many people. But do not think that the source of your unbelief is that there is no God.

The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith.

There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He who propagates god is a scoundrel. He who worships god is a barbarian.

I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.

People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

I believe in nothing.

I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.