Quotes About Belief

Reason' and 'rationalism' had led men to do the most unreasonable and irrational things. It had been just another system used by men to control other men. Belief in the autonomy of man had been destroyed by men.

Society may tolerate you. It may wish you well. But your desire to dress in lady's knickers is no reason to force everyone to use entirely new pronouns. Or to alter every public bathroom. Or to bring up children with the belief that there is no difference between the sexes and that gender is a social construct. If

Estupefactos, nos adentramos por último en el territorio más pantanoso de todos: el de quienes afirman que entre nosotros hay un número considerable de personas que viven en un cuerpo equivocado y que, por tanto, las pocas certezas que le quedaban a la sociedad (incluidas las certezas arraigadas en la ciencia y el lenguaje) deben ser reformuladas de arriba abajo.

Como sabe cualquiera que haya vivido bajo un régimen totalitario, hay algo humillante y hasta autodestructivo en tener que marchar al son de consignas que uno no cree ni puede creer.

Cascadians are less likely to believe that "the world will end in the battle of Armageddon between Jesus and the Antichrist" (29 percent versus 43 percent, RoNA).

Perhaps the biggest misconception some managers may run into is the belief that correlation proves causation. The fact that one variable is correlated to another does not necessarily mean that one variable causes the other. If church donations and liquor sales are correlated, it is not because of some collusion between clergy and the liquor industry. It is because both are affected by how well the economy is doing.

the objection to using stats boils down to nothing more than an irrational fear of numbers causing some to believe math somehow detracts from understanding or appreciation

Douglas W. Hubbard

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

Your writing advances a particular view of the world. Pretending that it does't just confuses everybody, starting with you.

Education is fundamentally religious. Consequently, there is no question about whether a morality will be imposed in that education, but rather which morality will be imposed.

Propaganda (things to be propagated) is inescapable. It is not *whether* certain values will be propagated, but rather, *which* values will be propagated.

There are two basic approaches to life- one in which the world is a world of scarcity, given to us by the skinflint god, and the other in which the world is a world of endless possibilities, bestowed on us by a loving Father.

One of the most pernicious errors that has gotten abroad in the Christian community is the error of sentimentalism - the view that evil is to be evaded, rather than the more robust Christian view that it is to be conquered. The Christian believes that evil is there to be fought, the dragon is there to be slain. The sentimentalist believes that evil is to be resented.

Our God is able to deliver us, but even if He does not, be it known, o king, that we will not consent to applaud the use of a man as though he were a woman.

A creedal church is one in which the words I believe in God the Father Almighty provoke tears of gladness in strong men. A creed muttered in nominal unbelief is oxymoronic. The word creed comes from "credo," I believe. A creedal church believes certain things to be true, and acts as though truth mattered.

We confess that Jesus is Lord. He is not simply Lord of a spiritual zone somewhere, but He is Lord of the nations.

Unbelief squashes; faith teaches. Faith takes a boy aside, and tells him that this part of what he did was good, while that other part of what he did got in the way. "And this is how to do it better next time.

To assert that a man can lose his salvation through what he does or does not do is to assert, in the final analysis, salvation by works.

Our good God, our overflowing God, our God of yes and amen, has always been able to promise far more than we are able to believe.

Every doctrine lives as it is applied and no other way.

Theocracy is not, however, to be confused with "theocracy" or any other form of government contained within scare quotes, to which I am unalterably opposed.

But believing in the separation of church and state (as we do) does not mean that we believe in the separation of righteousness and state. We do not believe in the separation of morality and state, or the separation of God and state. To believe in the separation of God and state is tantamount to desiring a godless state. And to desire that is to declare war on all humanity.

She wasn't really going to church anywhere, but she remained a contemporary evangelical to the back teeth. She had lost her faith while still managing to hang on to all the platitudes.