Quotes About Belief

Glauben empfangen wir von Gott immer nur so viel, wie wir für den gegenwärtigen Tag gerade brauchen. Der Glaube ist das tägliche Brot, das Gott uns gibt.

Der Christ lebt aus den Zeiten Gottes und nicht aus seinem eigenen Begriff vom Leben.

Ein Christenleben besteht nicht in Worten, sondern in Erfahrung. Niemand ist Christ ohne Erfahrung. Nicht von der Lebenserfahrung ist hier die Rede, sondern von der Erfahrung Gottes.

Mit Gott tritt man nicht auf der Stelle, sondern man beschreitet einen Weg.

Die Kraft des Menschen ist das Gebet. Beten ist Atemholen aus Gott; beten heißt sich Gott anvertrauen.

24. Juli Ein Glaube, der nicht hofft, ist krank.

Ich glaube, daß Gott uns in jeder Notlage soviel Widerstandskraft geben will, wie wir brauchen. Aber er gibt sie nicht im voraus, damit wir uns nicht auf uns selbst, sondern auf ihn verlassen.

He had always assumed it was a flaw in people, a human failing, that created this need to believe in something beyond the ordinary. Religion existed to control society, to monitor those without the capacity to think things through for themselves, to provide promises and shimmering images in the sky, so that the urges of the masses could be calmed and regulated. What, after all, did the word 'faith' connote, except a willing blindness to the lack of actual proof?

To think I need a gun to protect against those who'd kill me for being Muslim ... It's too bad they don't know about my true religion of noodling - a reason to get their nuts in a snit.

What, after all, did the word 'faith' connote, except a willing blindness to the lack of actual proof?

The tradition that refuses to entertain doubt, or remains impervious to new thoughts and ideas, becomes a prison rather than a sustaining life force.

Skepticism as propounded by Pyrrho of Elis (365-275 B.C.) and by Timon, Sextus Empiricus said that those who seek must find or deny they have found or can find, or persevere in the inquiry.

Todas las naciones paganas han tenido y tienen no solo su religión oficial, sino también otra a la cual solo han podido acceder los filósofos elegidos.

Those who suppose they have found truth are called Dogmatists; those who think it incomprehensible are the Academics; those who still seek are the Skeptics

The shrines of Masonry are ornamented by the jewels of a thousand ages; its rituals ring with the words of enlightened seers and illuminated sages. A hundred religions have brought their gifts of wisdom to its altar. It is more than a faith; it is a path of certainty. It is more than belief; it is fact.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

No struggle for what you believe in is ever futile.

Eventually, there is one principle, and one principle alone on which the world is hinged: things will work out the way they should, provided we do what we should.

Even pragmatic people needed a totem of goodness to buoy them against life's tyrannies.

The story is much bigger than they ever thought it was. He says to his nephew Richard, you cannot tell people just part of the tale and then stop, or just tell them the parts you choose. They have seen their religion painted on the walls of churches, or carved in stone, but now God's pen is poised, and he is ready to write his words in the books of their hearts.

only 3 per cent believed that governments worked to improve their lives.

Debemos defender a los ídolos que creamos, para defendernos a nosotros mismos, para no desesperarnos

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.