Julia Sweeney famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It took me years, but letting go of religion has been the most profound wake up of my life. I feel I now look at the world not as a child, but as an adult. I see what's bad and it's really bad. But I also see what is beautiful, what is wonderful. And I feel so deeply appreciative that I am alive. How dare the religious use the term 'born again.' That truly describes freethinkers who've thrown off the shackles of religion so much better!
-- Julia Sweeney

#Beautiful #Letting Go #Religious
Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit ... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.
-- Julia Sweeney

#Motivation #Inspiration #Santa
I just became a stronger agnostic, and then I started to realize that everyone who was saying they were agnostic really hadn't thought about it that much. Still, I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist -- being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.
-- Julia Sweeney

#Atheist #Long #Stronger
Don't get me wrong, I'm not ashamed of my body, I just don't see any reason to not cover it up as much as possible. ... I'm someone who considered becoming a nun, for the outfit.
-- Julia Sweeney

#Body #Becoming #Reason
Why isn't there a book about someone losing their faith and it being a beautiful experience?
-- Julia Sweeney

#Beautiful #Atheist #Book
I get mad at people who talk about traumatic job interviews, about going on one and getting rejected. I get rejected all the time and not only do I get rejected, but people have no problem being really specific about why I was rejected.
-- Julia Sweeney

#Inspirational #Funny #Motivational
I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.
-- Julia Sweeney

#Nice #Thinking #Scary
I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.
-- Julia Sweeney

#Realizing #Minutes #Jokes
Oh my, I've just discovered what science shows us about our humble but spectacular place in the universe, and I have to say: it is thrilling and mind-boggling beyond all imaginings! It makes the Bible so puny and uninspired, and certainly less poetic, by comparison. I'm terribly sorry. I sincerely misunderstood so much. I almost wish there were a God so I could be punished for all the suffering I have obliviously caused in the world. But since there will be no cosmic punishment for me, I will spend what time I have left working in a family planning clinic in Latin America. Good day.
-- Julia Sweeney

#Sorry #Latin #Humble
It was a fine cancer experience, as cancer experiences go.
-- Julia Sweeney

#Cancer #Fine
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.
-- Julia Sweeney

#Leap Of Faith #Sides #Certain
sometimes it's in your limitations that you find your greatest strengths.
-- Julia Sweeney

#Sometimes #Limitation

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