Charles Templeton

“I don't disbelieve. I can't believe.”

“I have found more answers in the questions than in the answers.”

“There are no answers, only questions.”

“How could a loving God have created a world in which it is necessary for one creature to kill and eat another in order to survive?”

“The Christian God is a being of staggering contradictions.”

“My mind, my intelligence, my reason, tells me that this world could not have been created by a loving, omnipotent, and omniscient God.”

“I want to believe, but I can't.”

“My primary reason for leaving the pastorate was an inability to believe what I was expected to preach.”

“Why does God's creation require a depth of cruelty that is beyond all human comprehension?”

“Mankind has created God in his own image. And God has been created generally as a father figure.”

“I miss God. I miss the certainty of His presence, His love, His care. I miss the easy companionship of the Man from Galilee.”