The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.
I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu.
Worship is God's way of giving us an opportunity to shift our focus from our own concerns, problems, and circumstances to the way things are in heaven.
I wanted to be a missionary and work abroad, but girls started to become a bigger part of my life around the time I lost interest in the priesthood.
In asking for miracles, we are seeking a practical goal: a return to inner peace. We’re not asking for something outside us to change, but for something inside us to change. We’re looking for a softer orientation to life.
I am a reformed Catholic. I'm a Buddhist in other words.
It's a matter of turning your consciousness inward in order to then realize that God is in there, and then you can see him outside too. It's just a shift in attitude, really.
We need a new religion.
I used to wake up in the morning and say, 'Oh, God.' Now I wake up in the morning and look forward to life.
'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.
Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity.
I used to always go to church on holidays, but I don't go much any more.
I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.
The world does not consist of 100 percent Christians and 100 percent non-Christians. There are people (a great many of them) who are slowly ceasing to be Christians but who still call themselves by that name: some of them are clergymen. There are other people who are slowly becoming Christians though they do not yet call themselves so.
I was a very religious teenager, and I moved away from that.
The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it.
Subconsciously, Islam took over me, so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.
I grew up really religious, and my family still is, but I'm not so much. That scene in 'Cool Hand Luke', it just destroyed me.
Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.
I'm not religious anymore, but I was raised religious.
You must carry on my spirit. It can no longer be carried by a god. It must be taken up by all of you. - Pan
I was raised Christian; I was raised in the South where everybody's raised Christian, but at this point, I'm 41 years old, and I've been an atheist, at this point, a little more than half my life.
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind.
In reality, many people let go of religion later in life.
Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
