Accepting Quote by Leslie Stephen

My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct…

— Robert Vaughn

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

— Paul Nurse

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

— Antonio Villaraigosa

Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books…

— Albert Einstein

By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways by my…

— Ronee Blakley

I never stopped believing in my ability or what I was doing. I want to pass that sense of faith and perseverance on to…

— Vantile Whitfield

Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

I never stopped believing myself and what I was capable of doing.

— Ronald Acuna Jr

I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I…

— C. S. Lewis

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 was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community.

— Moby

It was only after 20 years of being dunked in the religious culture that I got caught up in 'religion.' I had no exposure…

— John Eldredge