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There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

It wasn't that [he] believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this much love…

— Kate Atkinson

While others still slept, He went away to pray and to renew His strength in communion with His Father. He had need of this,…

— Andy Murray

“He put off the faith of his childhood quite simply, like a cloak that he no longer needed. At first life seemed strange and…

— W. Somerset Maugham

He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly…

— Ann Patchett

He was sick of God and God's religion, sick of all the little religious social clubs that didn't seem to make any real difference…

— William P. Young

If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw…

— Mary Antin

When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he…

— Laura Hillenbrand

He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers…

— Jorge Luis Borges

He didn't believe in a God who sifted through prayers, answering some and ignoring others, no matter how unworthy or worthy a person might…

— Nicholas Sparks

Whenever I think of how religion started, I picture some frustrated old man making out a list of all the ways he could gain…

— Steve Blake

“Only normal that man should no longer be interested in religion but in religions, for only through them will he be in a position…

— Emil M. Cioran