Belief Crisis Quotes

If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.

There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.

I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism

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.

My relationship with my belief has never been easy.

Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.

Not every Christian finds it easy to believe.

We live in an extremely anxious age in which the core of our beliefs has been undermined to a great extent by scientific thinking.

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything.

My most recent faith struggle is not one of intellect. I don’t really do that anymore. Sooner or later you just figure out there are some guys who don’t believe in God and they can prove He doesn't exist, and there are some other guys who do believe in God and they can prove He does exist, and the argument stopped being about God a long time ago and now it’s about who is smarter, and honestly I don’t care.

At the heart of every really good Christmas movie is the threat, I suppose, to Christmas. Something is wrong with Christmas, in all of these movies. In 'The Polar Express,' there's a kid that doesn't really believe, and that's the threat to Christmas. In 'Santa Claus: The Movie,' jealousy and greed are threatening to overrun his Christmas.

Ill tell you, Mr. Thomas, why some Christians are afraid of me. They're not sure that what they believe is really true. If they were sure, I wouldn't be a threat to them at all.

When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed.

I don't know what I believe.

Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.

Do I know there is a God? Some days I don't.