Articles Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I never rejected religion, but it just ceased to be an overriding concern in my life.

— David Lowery

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been…

— Leo Tolstoy

You need to remember that being rejected by church is not the same as being rejected by God. God did not kick you out…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the…

— Peter Jurasik

“I refused to change the way I practiced my faith or to let fear stop me from carrying out what I believed in.”

— Shelina Zahra Janmohamed

The daughter of an ordained minister, I had been forced to go to church since I was a toddler. I hated church and resented…

— Lionel Shriver

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place…

— Maria Monk

I don't feel like I was argued into the faith, but I feel like the evidence knocked down a succession of objections and issues…

— Lee Strobel

“To reject theology is to reject the knowledge of God. This is not an option for the Christian.”

— R.C. Sproul

Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was…

— Bertrand Russell

I made mistakes but held on to my faith

— Dappy

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

— Charles Kingsley