Complacency Quote by George Orwell

“[She] awkwardly grasped for an answer based upon going to church. The more she talked, the more she realized that she knew a lot…

— Dannah K. Gresh

“He realized how easy it was to present an appearance of orthodoxy while having no grasp whatever of what orthodoxy meant. In a way,…

— George Orwell

“If she had some level of theism, we might have a shared theological root from which I could shape holy words.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Though she hardly knew how to explain the matter even to herself, she was sure that there was at present a general heaving-up of…

— Anthony Trollope

“And what does that signify to you?" he said, perhaps forgetting that if she could speak truly to the world, she would not be…

— Joanne Greenberg

“Was he serious? Why would she be meant for a guy from Hell? If there was such a thing as destiny, she was supposed…

— Trinity Faegen

“The sight of her made him understand why he'd lost his faith in God.”

— Sarah Langan

“I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have. Well, people were that way. To hell with people. The Catholic Church had an awfully…

— Ernest Hemingway

“And for you, I think, a religious life,' she said, a calm certainty all over her crisscrossed face. She didn't even bother with a…

— Patricia Lockwood

“Nora. I know nothing but what the clergyman said, when I went to be confirmed. He told us that religion was this, and that,…

— Henrik Ibsen

“She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive…

— Thomas Hardy

“I wanted to confront her, to make her see the folly of her religion, to change her diet, to help her spend less on…

— Gary Shteyngart