Ceased Believe Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

“Though he did not believe, he was not untouched by the magic of belief ...”

— Donna Leon

“Emotions, he was certain, were unreliable and irrelevant to the labor of religious faith.”

— Michael D. O'Brien

“but he believed solely because he desired to believe and possibly he fully believed in his secret heart even when he said, ‘I do…

— Dostoevsky F

“Was this what faith was? Just a believing and hoping and trusting in something, regardless of the evidence to the contrary?”

— Val Brelinski

“The absolute gut-level truth was that he had no desire for God to interrupt him in this way.”

— Elizabeth Musser

“The trouble is I have the religious temperament but I don't have the belief.”

— Galen Strawson

“His actions were a total contradiction of what thinks , in that way its a way hard to believe him...”

— aks

“and yet we didn’t believe it now that it was, and not because we really didn’t believe it but because we no longer wanted…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“He was increasingly doubtful of the existence of any God; but he hoped it was a vengeful one.”

— Francine Mathews

“Many may have stopped believing in you, but God hasn't.”

— Anita R. Sneed-Carter

“He’d never felt more inept. Now he truly understood what it meant to rely solely on Christ.”

— Dani Pettrey

“He respected the power of faith, the benevolence of churches, the strength religion gave so many people . . . and yet, for him,…

— Dan Brown