Quotes About Agnosticism

I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do.

I can't prove it scientifically, that there's a God, but I believe.

Far too many young people coming of age today have no spiritual or emotional roots. They have been deprived of values by an agnostic and contemporary culture.

Much of the world believes little or nothing. People are broad but shallow. Agnosticism, anxiety, emptiness, and meaninglessness have gripped much of the world—and even the church . . . By contrast, our Pilgrim forebears stand as shining examples of men who were narrow but deep, certain of what they believed, unswerving in their loyalty, and passionately dedicated to the God they trusted, and for whom they would willingly have died.

In our day many people are broad but shallow. Agnosticism, anxiety, and emptiness have gripped much of our world.

No , no I'm not an atheist . it's no fun being an atheist .

If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't. And if that's what God's like, I wouldn't worry about it.

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.

Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist. She had some spiritual tendencies, but they were kind of flaky - New Agey, you know? Which is partly why I'm suspicious of that sort of thing. I'm skeptical of any spiritual practice that doesn't involve other people and doesn't involve some sort of consistent tradition.

In Japan, the people preserve their temples for their exquisite beauty, and there are a great many sincere Buddhists; but China is irreligious: a nation of atheists or agnostics, or slaves of impious superstitions. In an extended tramp among temples, I have not seen a single male worshiper or a thing to please the eye.

When I approached God at that time, I hardly had a living faith in Him. The agnostic was in me, the atheist was in me, the sceptic was in me and I was not absolutely sure that there was a God at all. I did not feel His presence. Yet something drew me to the truth of the Vedas, the truth of the Gita, the truth of the Hindu religion. I felt there must be a mighty truth somewhere in this Yoga, a mighty truth in this religion based on the Vedanta.

Proclaim the only truth you can be totally sure of: "I don't know."

That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand.

But what is your religion?" "I don't have one." "But you believe in God?" "No." He thinks this over. "Then I'm pretty sure they can't let you in.

I reached the conclusion that there was no God. That was the end of my religious life.

I'm kind of a skeptic at heart.

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

I'm a natural born skeptic.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

I spell 'god' with a small 'g' because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.

I don't like the word atheist because to me it mirrors the certainty of religion. I preach the gospel of I don't know.

To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God.

I don't believe in gods, only in religion.

I feel very Jewish, and I feel very grateful to be Jewish. But I don't believe in God or anything to do with the Jewish religion.