Religious Absence Quotes

Religion doesn't play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don't think I've ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word 'Jew' or saying it myself.

It's not religion that's the problem - it's the lack of religion!

I never went to church when I was in college, either.

Secularism produces a bored soul

Secularism breeds narcissism. There is nothing higher to live for, so you live for you

What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable. And I would vary Yeats's axiom so as to say: no man can read fully, can answer answeringly to the aesthetic, whose "nerve and blood" are at peace in sceptical rationality, are now at home in immanence and verification. We must read as if.

I think that if you are a resolute, unswerving atheist, you have that sense that you are conscious of the God-shaped hole that has been left in the wake of any religious belief, and in a way, one is much more drawn to articulate why it is that certain places, or certain experiences, have a kind of power.

I don't think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

Albemarle County as a “common Sanctuary for all our runaway servants. There is a total Absence of Religion. It is the “sinke of America, the Refuge of Renegadoes.

Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is why absorbing the culture all around us and its priorities is so dangerous.