Abandonment Quote by Robert V. Taylor

One reason why I recommend the abandonment of religious beliefs is because I think those beliefs are wrong. There is no evidence that our…

— Simon LeVay

Even when our life is most difficult, it is important to remember that something within us is keeping us alive- the life force-that lift…

— Nathaniel Branden

There is no failure in the spiritual life, as long as we do not give up the fight.

— Swami Prabhavananda

In studies asking why young people left their family religion, their most frequent response was unanswered doubts and questions. The researchers were surprised: They…

— Nancy Pearcey

A spiritual process is not a divorce from life. It is an irrevocable love affair with life.

— Jaggi Vasudev

“When we feel used and abused, the Bible says we are loved. When we feel abandoned, the Bible says we are never alone. When…

— Teresa Schultz

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

— Jack Kornfield

“It is, often, in the utter despair of humanness that we become willing to consider deeply spiritual answers. Although the door and the guide…

— Donna Goddard

For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not clearly have…

— Karl Rahner

Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.

— Thomas Keating

“Ah, well … at last I realized that God would never ask of me that which I know to be psychologically impossible; that the…

— William Peter Blatty

“But it’s not uncommon for Christians to collapse and give up, looking at themselves and then at the steep road ahead, and refusing to…

— Hannah K. Grieser