Quotes About Belief

The other is to walk round the whole world till we come back to the same place… in other words, the next best thing to being really inside Christendom is to be really outside it. And a particular point of it is that the popular critics of Christianity are not really outside it.

McLanahan thought that Elliott

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Our thoughts make us what we are.

A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still

Caleb shook his head. "No, they

Research has shown that frequent viewers of Fox News, a network that writes skepticism about climate change into its scripts, are less likely to accept the scientific consensus than those who do not watch Fox News.

idea that doubt is bad, that unquestioning acceptance is good, that there is only one possible right answer

Fear believes—courage doubts. Fear falls upon the earth and prays—courage stands erect and thinks. Fear is barbarism—courage is civilization. Fear believes in witchcraft, in devils and in ghosts. Fear is religion, courage is science.

evangelism of children nonetheless seeks to cut off the process of independent thought before it begins. It's this aspect of religious indoctrination that is most unacceptable—the idea that doubt is bad, that unquestioning acceptance is good, that there is only one possible right answer, and that someone else has already figured out what that answer is.

Children's understanding of morality is the same whether they're of one religion, another religion or no religion. But if it's simply indoctrination, it's worse than doing nothing. It interferes with moral development." —Larry Nucci, director, Office for Studies in Moral Development, University of Illinois

The doctrine of hell exists solely to paralyze thought.

If you live what you believe, you will always have the respect of others.

The Bible is clear: amnesia produces apostasy.

The most shocking part of Exodus 4:24-26 is most useful to me. It forces me to ask if God is free to be who he is, or, do I try to make him my prisoner, subject to what I think he should be? A Christian must keep asking himself: Am I worshiping the God of the Bible or only God as I wish to think of him?

When what you hear and what you see don't match, trust your eyes.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

God help us—we are both men of La Mancha.

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.

We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.

The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.