Quotes About Belief

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

Human fallibility recognised, Gods sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.

Though the world disregard the society of God's children now, yet there is a time coming in which they would be glad to have the least company with them.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.

The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure.

Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.

We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.

I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

The conspiracy theory of society... comes from abandoning god and then asking: "Who is in his place"

But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

Leaving home' to me means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what society — your home — tells you is important.

We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, and who knows that the world can be made new again - and that President is Al Gore.

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.