We mourn the change which yet we can not resist.

We would gladly have the God of our former faith, were it possible any longer to believe in Him." I answer again: "Are you sure of what you say?
Do you in reality mourn over your lost faith?
For my part, I would rather disbelieve with you, than have what you have lost.

For I would rather have no God than the God whom you suppose me to believe in, and whom therefore I take to be the God in whom you imagine you believed in the days of your ignorance.

That those were days of ignorance, I do not doubt; but are these the days of your knowledge?
The time will come when you will see deeper into your own hearts than now, and will be humbled, like not a few other men, by what you behold.".