Loss of Faith Quotes

The culture of critique undermines the spirit not only of people in public roles but of those who read about them, afraid to believe in anyone or anything because the next story... will tell them why they shouldn't.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies.

Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.

When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice - cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.

When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.

All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away.

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.

Despair is the only cure for illusion.

First I stopped believing in hell, then the afterlife. Sometimes that connection is still there, and I'll feel an impulse to pray if I'm stressed or upset.

The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.

In the end, what brings civilizations down is when the elites lose confidence in the rightness of their cause.

I was raised as an Orthodox Jew in a major neighborhood specializing in that, in Brooklyn. And somewhere when I was about 14, something changed. And that change probably involved updating every molecule in my body, in that I sort of realized: this is nonsense, there's no God, there's no free will, there is no purpose.

I'd be on stage in Ireland performing for thousands of people and just not believing in what I'm doing at all. And it hurt, it hurt badly. I knew every day that I couldn't continue this way.

Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don't understand it. It's like America has lost faith in rational thought.

Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.

I did everything religion told me to do for a long time only to end up frustrated, beat down and jaded. I couldn't keep up. No matter how hard I tried, it was never enough. So I decided to quit. And I did.

I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.

Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last was complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct.

I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion early, but the impression remains.

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

There's nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.

Revolutionaries were depressed and close to emotional breakdown; after the failure, they left successively.