"Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A……" — Yann Martel
"Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way was up, who were in the thrall of reason, that fool's gold for the bright - reminded me of the three-toed sloth; and the three-toed sloth, such a beautiful example of the miracle of life, reminded me of God."
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214 Quotes by Yann Martel
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More Agnostics Quotes
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The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith…
— William Jennings Bryan
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It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman -they don't want to.
— John Hagee
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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that…
— Galen Strawson
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We have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to…
— Barack Obama
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Agnostics are just atheists without balls.
— Stephen Colbert
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Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds -- some Christians, Jews,…
— Malcolm X
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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We never try to convert those who receive (aid) to Christianity but in our work we bear witness to the…
— Mother Teresa
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His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who…
— J. G. Ballard
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The Internet has helped atheists and agnostics coalesce as never before.
— Lee Strobel
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I do know plenty of atheists, agnostics and skeptics who have become Christians through the years. In fact, several of…
— Lee Strobel
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