Quotes About Belief

Heresy no longer existed within religion; it was founded in the state.

Der Sturm klärt den trübsten Himmel auf. Nicht allein unser Charakter und noch weniger die Welt, in die wir hineingeboren werden, sind unser Schicksal. Im Hinterfragen und nicht im Glauben an eine Fügung finden wir Selbstvergewisserung.

Für mich ist klar: Alle bekannten, diesseitigen Götter sind menschengemacht. Für das Jenseitige haben wir weder Namen noch die Kraft der Vorstellung. Ich bleibe also Possibilist, schließe das Göttliche in meinem Weltbild weder aus noch ein. Die alten Götter aber brauche ich nicht; auch fehlen sie mir nicht.

Wild tehdy nevÄ›dÄ›l nic. A to nic naplnil vírou.

Later I read that there are things inside us too tiny to see. Not even a microscope can capture them. This got me thinking--if there are things inside us too tiny to see, might there be things outside us too big to believe?

She) didn't believe in resilience. She believed in imagination.

WHETHER ONE BELIEVES in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

Egyptians believed that the Pharaoh would be resurrected, but they did not accept the resurrection of the mases

The single most important factor in the performance of any Muslim ritual is the believer's intention, which must be consciously proclaimed before the ritual can begin.

Despite two millennia of Christian apologetics, the fact is that belief in a dying and rising messiah simply did not exist in Judaism. In the entirety of the Hebrew Bible there is not a single passage of scripture or prophecy about the promised messiah that even hints of his ignominious death, let alone his bodily resurrection.

Religion engenders both inclusion and exclusion. It spawns as much conflict in society as it does cohesion.

No one speaks for God - not even the prophets (who speak about God)

874 The occultation of the Twelfth Imam, or the Mahdi

An apology is a defense, and there is no higher calling than to defend one's faith, especially from ignorance and hate.

Can belief save you?" he retorts. "Even the demons believe—and shudder!" (James 2:14,19).

Like most people born into a religious tradition, my faith was as familiar to me as my skin, and just as disregardable.

manism (ancestor cults)—but it was not as concerned

Whereas a religion of many gods posits many myths to describe the human condition, a religion of one god tends to be monomythic; it not only rejects all other gods, it rejects all other explanations for God.

Thus, the Quran promises that "all those who believe—the Jews, the Sabians, the Christians—anyone who believes in God and the Last Days, and who does good deeds, will have nothing to fear

While the details of the Amirs' religion have been lost to history, most scholars are convinced that by the sixth century C.E., henotheism had become the standard belief of the vast majority of sedentary Arabs, who not only accepted Allah as their High God, but insisted that he was the same god as Yahweh, the god of the Jews.

The cognitive science of religion begins with a simple premise: Religion is first and foremost a neurological phenomenon.

Every impulse—every impulse without exception—is generated by complex electrochemical reactions in the brain. Why would the religious impulse be any different? Knowing the neural mechanics of the religious impulse does not undermine the legitimacy of religious belief any more than knowing the chemical process of romantic attraction makes the feeling any less real or the object of our affection any less worthy.

It is a miracle that we know anything at all about the man called Jesus of Nazareth.

But no religion is inherently violent or peaceful; people are violent or peaceful.