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.
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.
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.
I used to wake up in the morning and say, 'Oh, God.' Now I wake up in the morning and look forward to life.
We need a new religion.
'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.
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.
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 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 was a very religious teenager, and I moved away from that.
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.
I'm not religious anymore, but I was raised religious.
Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.
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.
I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
