Quotes About Belief

Those who erase God…must be gods.

It seems we do a lot of fighting over God. Everyone has a different version of the truth.

From my perspective, however, there has never been an intellectual advancement that has not included God.

and religion are not competitors, they're two different languages trying to tell the same story. There's room in this world for both.

Or are we?" Langdon intoned overhead. "We consider ourselves modern rational individuals, and yet our species' most widespread religion includes a whole host of magical claims—humans inexplicably rising from the dead, miraculous virgin births, vengeful gods that send plagues and floods, mystical promises

You sat in that monetary's sacrosanct library and told a bishop that his entire belief system is delusional? Langdon exclaimed. Did you expect him to serve you tea and cake?- p.56

In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning.

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called on to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

sometimes to find the truth, one must move mountains.

When we as a species abandon our trust in the power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faith . . . all faiths . . . are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable . . . With faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth.

Every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith — acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we can not prove. Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory, and exaggeration, from the early Egyptians through modern Sunday school. Metaphors are a way to help our minds process the unprocessible. The problems arise when we begin to believe literally in our own metaphors. - Robert Langdon

que me preocupa es que Leonardo Vetra prácticamente demostró la existencia de Dios, y sin embargo usted ha hecho que lo asesinen!

spontaneous generation

Until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him. Martin Luther had

Jesús soportó el dolor en la cruz durante tres días!»

it is a messy process for a culture to abandon its deities. Spiritual beliefs are etched deeply on our psyches at a young age by those we love and trust most—our parents, our teachers, our religious leaders. Therefore, any religious shifts occur over generations, and not without great angst, and often bloodshed.

Salah pengertian dapat mengakibatkan ketidakpercayaan

I've learned never to close my mind to an idea simply because it seems miraculous.

A lo largo de la historia, las personas más peligrosas siempre habían sido los hombres de Dios… sobre todo cuando sus dioses se veían amenazados

No man is more prideful than he who believes himself immune to the dangers of the world.

Trish would have said impossible, but the I-word was banned here. Katherine considered it a dangerous mind-set in a field that often transformed preconceived falsehoods into confirmed truths.

dos tipos de religiones: los credos dogmáticos y oscuros, que reprimen todo pensamiento original… y las religiones luminosas y expansivas, que fomentan la introspección y la creatividad.

By a show of hands, Kirsch continued, how many of you believe in any of the following ancient gods: Apollo? Zeus? Vulcan? He paused, and then laughed. Not a single one of you? Okay, so it appears we are all atheists with respect to those gods. He paused. I simply choose to go one god further.

We all had the Creator. We used different names, different faces, and different prayers, but God was the universal constant for man.