Atheism Quote by George H. Smith

“The pious heart therefore perceives a division in itself, being partly affected with delight through a knowledge of the divine goodness, partly distressed with…

— William Cunningham

“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep, inexpressible certitude…

— Thomas Merton

At the conscious approach of death, faith in the Biblical Religion, with its God and Christ and written Revelation, never weakens, but almost or…

— Enoch Fitch Burr

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

— Michael Polanyi

Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“But when a belief vanishes, there survives it — more and more ardently, so as to cloak the absence of the power, now lost…

— Marcel Proust

Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.

— Sam Harris

The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.

— John Ortberg

It is not the feeling sure of a doctrine (be it what it may) which I call an assumption of infallibility. It is the…

— John Stuart Mill

No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to seek to…

— Paul Kurtz

“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep, inexpressible certitude…

— Thomas Merton

Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the…

— Annie Besant