I had a calling, this is what happened, I've explained the story many times. I've had my priest on, I've had atheists on. When I explain my conversion to atheists, my personal series of events, they go, "Oh, alright."
The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
1st Baron Verulam
I was driven to Whipsnade one sunny morning. When we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, and when we reached the zoo I did. Yet I had not exactly spent the journey in thought. Nor in great emotion. “Emotional” is perhaps the last word we can apply to some of the most important events. It was more like when a man, after a long sleep, still lying motionless in bed, becomes aware that he is now awake.
We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.
To be brutally frank, I mean Christianity is dying in Europe, and Islam is on the rise.
In a way, technologies have negated the transcendental God in order to invent the machine-God. However, these two gods raise similar questions.
I used to pray that God would do this or that; now I pray that God will make His will known to me.
Get somebody else for Jesus Christ and you will get a new vision of life, a new vision of what it means.
I used to be an atheist, but I've chilled out a bit on that.
Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
I no longer believed in the known God of the Bible, but rather in the mysterious God expressed in nature.
Pat Robertson had decided that global warming was real and we need to do something about it struck me as powerful evidence that the Holy Spirit is hard at work in this question.
The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.
Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.
I am beginning now to see how radically the character of my spiritual journey will change when I no longer think of God as hiding out and making it as difficult as possible for me to find him, but instead as the one who is looking for me while I am doing the hiding.
All my work has come about through a change in my earlier opinion of religion.
