Godlessness Quotes

“Scapegoating worked in practice while it still had religious powers behind it. You loaded the sins of the city on to the goat’s back and drove it out, and the city was cleansed. It worked because everyone knew how to read the ritual, including the gods. Then the gods died, and all of a sudden you had to cleanse the city without divine help. Real actions were demanded instead of symbolism. The censor was born, in the Roman sense. Watchfulness became the watchword: the watchfulness of all over all. Purgation was replaced by the purge.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

“The beginning of the most materialistic age in the history of the world, when wars would be fought without patriotism, when men would forget God and only pay attention to moral standards, when the will to power would replace the will to serve and beauty would be well-nigh forgotten in the terrible headlong rush of mankind toward the acquiring of possessions...”
― Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

“The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction.”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“Religion springs from man's feeling of inferiority.”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“You need a body to preserve your soul, not a set of abstract principles.”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“...[I]f at the time of its release the soul is tainted and impure, because it has always associated with the body and cared for it and loved it, and has been so beguiled by the body and its passions and pleasures that nothing seems real to it but those physical things which can be touched and seen and eaten and drunk and used for sexual enjoyment; and if it is accustomed to hate and fear and avoid what is invisible and hidden from our eyes, but intelligible and comprehensible by philosophy - if the soul is in this state, do you think that it will escape independent and uncontaminated?”
― Socrates, Apology, Crito And Phaedo Of Socrates.

“The Church makes no man less free than he was before. But we chiefly value freedom in order to give it away; every man who loves surrenders his freedom, whether his passion be the love of a woman, the love of a cause, or the love of God. . . Hence: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Everyone wants the things that only a love of God will bring to him, but most men today seek them in the wrong places. That is why no one comes to God without a revolution of the spirit; he must stop seeking his good in Godlessness.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Peace of Soul: Timeless Wisdom on Finding Serenity and Joy by the Century's Most Acclaimed Catholic Bishop

“I have no fear of after death life! Even if there is such thing, it is God who should be worried. I am sure I have good reasons to present but I am not sure he might have good excuses for his injustice.”
― M.F.Moonzajer

“No angels or Gods, neither old or new sang for them. Only oblivion kept them company as the coaxing whisper of fatigue lulled a few to ruin.”
― H.S. Crow

“Ourselves our centre instead of God, is the source of all wrong and all misery.”
― George MacDonald, Donal Grant

“It is bad enough to be unconverted and going to hell. It is even worse to say, “I know it and will not cry for mercy.”
― J.C. Ryle, A Call to Prayer

“Without grace, there is godlessness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“To be godless is probably the first step to innocence... to lose the false sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“It is wiser and spiritually healthier for humanity to first transition to irreligiousness rather than directly transitioning to godlessness in the evolution of faith!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan