Quotes About Belief

It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.

I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

Faith is important to me.

Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.

In the desert, the only god is a well.

Hope is the last thing that dies. Maybe because hope is one of those dratted things that is truly, honestly, genuinely immortal.

Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder. Another is Deity. The choice to be a fool is yours.

A long time ago people believed that the world is flat and the moon is made of green cheese. Some still do, to this day. The man on the moon is looking down and laughing.

I do not accept this.

History is particularly important in throwing light on the source of our attitudes about sex because many of the assumptions we make are not necessarily scientific or rational but holdovers of past belief systems that are no longer held by modern society.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but fear. Faith implies risk. I will cast my life on this possibility that God is for me. I do not have to have any proof except my own commitment. I do not have to claim complete understanding -- that is idolatry.

Biblical faith is not intellectual assent to a proposition. It is risking that God is worthy of trust.

Anyone who insists that vaccines are safe and effective is a liar. Life

education will be replaced with indoctrination.

We have to ignore the sad individuals who scoff or mock – either because they have been bought with a purse of silver or because they are too unintelligent to understand the nature of the war we are fighting. We must not allow ourselves to be put off by scorn, derision, undisguised contempt or a lack of support or encouragement from others.

the fact that there was no global warming

People more readily fall victim to the big lie than the small lie,' said Hitler, 'since it would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.

It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through...whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.

Whenever we resist something—perhaps an unkind remark, a shocking event, or a depressing feeling—our very resistance indicates a belief in the power of that event to hurt us. Although it is really powerless, our mistaken belief in it induces despair. But by not resisting, we dissolve the false belief and consequently the false power for harm.

He who hesitates is lost - replace fear with faith, faith give rise to the greatest power - Instinctive Wisdom