Quote by Aaron Hartzler

“The best I can do is to ‘pretend’ that I’m my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that I’m not…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I have more faith in my God than to believe He would give me a mind and then ask me not to use it.”

— Jack Butler

“At times I still labor under the myth of an omnicompetence. If I just prayed enough, believed enough, or was filled with the Spirit…

— Scotty Smith

“I have often imagined that people who carry on about how God “thinks” human beings should behave must appear to be complete fools to…

— Caroline Myss

“I felt as though I were in the presence of one of God's more complicated pranks.”

— Charles Baxter

“People liked to pretend, but when you knew the truth you could see nothing but the lie.”

— Anonymous

“That’s the funny thing about belief: No one else can do it for you. Turns out, no matter how much I want to, I…

— Aaron Hartzler

“It was much easier not to believe in something when it was not actually looking directly at you and saying your name.”

— Neil Gaiman

“I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when…

— Ruta Sepetys

“Some said we were just teaching people to fool themselves, but then again, when were people ever not fooling themselves?”

— Matthew Mather

“I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools.…

— Charles Bukowski

“Only a fool would blindly believe everything she was told.”

— Alison Goodman