Quotes About Belief

Their (the Greeks)encounters with foreign were not coloured by the belief that such people's religion was false and inferior, the belief that thinges Christians, Muslims, Hindus or atheist nowadays

Some folks say God never gives us more than we can handle. I don't believe that's true. He doesn't give us more than He can handle.

Robin Lee Hatcher

Every foot is slow on an unknown path, my dear. Just face the sun and turn your back on the storm. It will all turn out right in the end.

The big difference between my mom and me-- besides the fact that she is dead normal and I'm a magic-handling freak-- is that she's the real thing. She may have a slight problem seeing other people's points of view, but she's honest about it. She's a brass-bound bitch because she believes she knows best. I'm a brass-bound bitch because I don't want anyone getting close enough to find out what a whiny little knot of naked nerve endings I really am.

When I was a kid growing up, the message "Jesus is the Answer" was ubiquitous— painted on barns, outcroppings of rock, or as the final installment of a Burma Shave sign. The message, however, is distinctly unbiblical. The message should be "Jesus is the Assignment.

His scientific community will reject him for believing in God. Unless, of course, someone challenges the biggest enthymeme of them all that they are not separate realms to begin with just separate methods in search of the same unified mystery.

Thus the fundamental illusion from which we must be disentangled, or "undone," is that the proper definition of the life of faith itself is first and foremost a belief system with behavioral consequences, rather than a way of being in the world whose behavior consequences make clear the things we believe. In other words, we are not acting upon beliefs so much as we are believing through action—we are not believers who act but actors who believe.

To the best-selling atheists of our time, who have lumped us all together into one ridiculous religious cartoon and then proudly announce that they don't believe in the God that most of us don't believe in either, I say, for the love of God … RESIST!

What Frazer called "'the savage mind" (as if it did not think through us still) believed that the soul or essence of a creature resided in its blood. If so, then she must have appeared even more awesome, for she could bleed but retain her soul. And if he, the hero, could not, then perhaps he could make another soul bleed and so increase his own powers by that other's blood: the sacrament, the war. What she would spill for life, he would spill for death.

It should be noted that the Battle of Loos, fought when and where the French wished, was a total shambles, costing a great number of British and French lives, but this catastrophe and all the others since the war began had clearly not dented the French belief in their military infallibility.

Self-will means believing that you alone have all the answers. Letting go of self-will means becoming willing to hold still, be open, and wait for guidance for yourself. It means learning to let go of fear (all of the "what ifs") and despair (all of the "if onlys") and replacing them with positive thoughts and statements about your life.

We all tend to believe that suffering is a mark of true love, that to refuse to suffer is selfish, and that if a man has a problem then a woman should help him change.

Doesn´t matter who you are or what you believe. Everybody has a ghost story

If the church is to survive as a place where head and heart are equal partners in faith, then we will need to commit ourselves once again not to the worship of Christ, but to the imitation of Jesus. His invitation was not to believe, but to follow. (p. 145)

Anti-intellectualism remains strongly entrenched in many parts of the church, but it is grounded in fear, not in faith. (p. 19)

As long as Christianity is the dominant belief system in America, we cannot afford to be biblically or theologically illiterate, regardless of our personal beliefs. (p. 8)

In the beginning, the call of God was not propositional. It was experiential. (p. 10)

Where there is denial there is dysfunction, and the more one's faith resembles a fairy tale the sooner the clock strikes midnight.

It is a "terrible trivialization," Crossan writes, "to imagine that all Jesus' followers lost their faith on Good Friday and had it restored by apparitions on Easter Sunday.

Faith as assensus is "relatively impotent, relatively powerless. You can believe all the right things and still be in bondage.

How can our faith become biblically responsible, intellectually honest, emotionally satisfying, and socially significant?

Today, worshipers of Christ agree to believe things about him in order to receive benefits promised by the institution, not by Jesus.

Christianity as a belief system requires nothing but acquiescence. Christianity as a way of life, as a path to follow, requires a second birth, the conquest of ego, and new eyes with which to see the world. It is no wonder that we have preferred to be saved.