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 Huysmans

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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.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

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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 Fox

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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

Albert Camus

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Moreover, 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 Camus

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A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

Richard K. Morgan

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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?

Terry Pratchett

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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.

Anaïs Nin

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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 Leno

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