Faith Decline Quotes

Christ is dead and his teachings moribund.

The tendency of our time is wholly oriented toward the secular. The efforts of the mystics will remain episodes. Despite a deepening of our conceptions of life, we will build no cathedrals.

I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since my Holy Communion when I was about 6 or 7.

Jesus don't walk on water no more; his feet leak.

If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.

When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.

people say churches are half empty, they're not, they're too big

Young people all over the world are very frustrated. They are very disillusioned. Many of them are turning their backs on religion. They are walking away from the faith of their parents, and most of this is because religion has failed them.

When I was a kid I had an imaginary friend and I used to think that he went everywhere with me, and that I could talk to him and that he could hear me, and that he could grant me wishes and stuff. And then I grew up, and I stopped going to church.

The only way for mankind to survive is for religion to die.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

The United States is at a turning point because of a decreasing influence of faith .

After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.

Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms.

Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.

Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.

Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.

The Europeans have fallen away from religion and the church while the rest of the world is seemingly more religious. I don't know how to explain it.

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes

When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.

Obviously I don't really go to church any more - no time.

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

When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.

It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing.