Loss of Belief Quotes

Reading the Bible is the fast track to atheism. Reading the Bible means starting at "In the beginning..." and throwing it down with disgust at "...the grace of the lord Jesus be with all. Amen." I'm sure there are lots of religious people who've read the Bible from start to finish and kept their faith, but in my self-selected sample, all the people I know who have done that are atheists.

Unbelief will destroy the best of us; faith will save the worst of us.

My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

Faith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell.

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.

That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.

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

The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.

If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.

The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.

I am disabused of all faith, and see too clearly.

For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.

I'm a Roman Catholic. Or was. I was brought up that way and used to say my prayers every night, but I don't pray to God any more. I might use the usual phrases I picked up from my parents, 'Oh, if God spares me next year...' or 'Please God...' but they're only phrases.

I grew up an Orthodox Jew, and now I'm not an Orthodox Jew. So I have sympathy for people who lose their faith.

Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning.

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

The silence killed your faith.

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

Once born into childlike faith, brimming with belief, typical people begin to lose their faith. Society mocks them. Their friends smirk. They come to change the world, but over time the world changes them. Soon they forget who they were; they forget the faith they once had. Then one day someone tells them the truth, but they don’t want to go back, because they’re comfortable in their new skin. Being a stranger in this world is never easy.