"I went with agnosticism for a long, long……" — Julia Sweeney
"I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick."
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17 Quotes by Julia Sweeney
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Why isn't there a book about someone losing their faith and it being a beautiful experience?
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I like going back and writing fiction.
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More Agnosticism Quotes
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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God…
— H. L. Mencken
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I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
— David Hume
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Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so…
— Thomas Huxley
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The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.
— H. L. Mencken
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Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and…
— Anna Julia Cooper
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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity,…
— Andre Gide
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Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its…
— Jonathan Swift
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An atheist has to know more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no God.
— Carl Sagan
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