Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the skeptic who would fain believe, on the galley-slave of life who puts to sea alone, in the darkness of night, beneath a firmament illumined no longer by the consoling beacon-fires of the ancient hope.
Joris-Karl HuysmansTags: courage religion skeptic
Far from seeking to
justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and
afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God has made this
world, I should not wish to be that God. The world's wretchedness
would rend my heart.
The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God himself.
Emmet FoxTags: life christianity god religion expression
I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
Albert CamusMoreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replaced normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.
Albert CamusTags: religion superstition beliefs
A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.
Richard K. MorganTags: philosophy religion atheism
We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
Isaac Bashevis SingerTags: religion
Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?
Terry PratchettTags: humor insanity war religion
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.
Anaïs NinTags: inspirational politics religion dogma freedom-of-thought independent-thought critical-thinking
The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
Jay LenoTags: politics christianity religion christmas corruption washington nativity
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