Abandon Quote by Ernest Gellner

“… a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension.”

— Janvier Chando

“Snatch religion back from the clerics and literature from the critics.”

— Michael Foley

Losing faith in one's self means losing faith in God.

— Swami Vivekananda

Any man who stands for progress has to criticize, disbelieve and challenge every item of the old faith. Item by item he has to…

— Bhagat Singh

Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it…

— Graham Greene

“My loss of faith was not revelatory, nor intensely distressing. It was a prolonged growth of resignation, one which the events of my life…

— Claire North

The world is full of people who have lost faith: politicians who have lost faith in politics, social workers who have lost faith in…

— P. D. James

Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth." It takes much thought and concentration in…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Religion stays with you long after you have lost faith, buried somewhere in your subconscious, waiting to rise and take over your need to…

— Kiran Manral

For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.

— Zadie Smith

That historian or scholar who delights in pointing out the weaknesses and frailties of present or past leaders destroys faith. A destroyer of faith…

— Boyd K. Packer