Quotes About Belief

Faithful Christian living involves a paradox: our faith is both world-affirming and world-denying. World-affirming

Faith requires knowledge, for we cannot believe in what we do not know. But it also requires commitment: we must place our entire weight on what we claim to know.

one need not be religious at all to believe that we should be willing to give what we seek: charitable interpretations of behavior and a willingness to offer just appraisals of conduct with an eye toward fairness.

Nationalism is the belief that no matter what one's country does—whether racist, homophobic, sexist, xenophobic, or the like—it must be supported and accepted entirely.

If we cite the Bible, and yet fail to live according to its codes, the Bible becomes just another book. But when we live it, it becomes powerful. If you believe it, the words of scripture say that we become living epistles in whose life others read the presence of God.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true.

There's nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.

A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.

I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of daily life.

In the Middle Ages, people would have pictures or statues of the Virgin Mary, or Jesus Christ, or a favourite saint. Today, people have pictures, posters or statues of celebrities: actors, sports stars, TV stars, fictional characters. Is that an improvement?

We are the new and improved Christians, those who actually understand Christianity. It has nothing to do with worshipping the Son of God, and everything to do with becoming God. Christianity is about making yourself Christ.

Once you get below negative twenty, you purposely don't think. It's like there's no atheists in a foxhole. Same with negative twenty. That's when you do have religion. You do pray. You pray for warmth.

Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done ' I know I'm close to success.

There were only two sorts of women so perfervid in their devotions: madwomen and saints, nor were the two species entirely distinct.

Ockham snorted. "I am no nominalist. The problem with teaching the Modern Way is that lesser scholars, excited by the novelty, seldom bother to master my insights. There are lips on which I heartily wish my name had never rested. I tell you, Dietl, a man becomes a heretic less for what he writes than for what others believe he has written.

That is the way of it among heretics. They start questioning one doctrine and end up questioning everything. No wonder they used to burn them.

Of this his head was convinced, however doubtful his bowels.

You priests say to forgive your enemy, and that is well, or revenge follows revenge until eternity. But between a man who will stop at nothing, and one who will hesitate at anything, the advantage is generally to the former. The pagans had it right, too – it is a false peace to be over-forgiving.

After a lifetime of engaging in long, passionate discussions I have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of time trying to convince anyone of anything.

?nsan, Tanr?'y? yüceltmek için küçük ?akalar?na, özellikle kötü ?akalar?na Tanr?'yla birlikte gülmekten daha iyi ne yapabilir?

God is gonna get ya

Rogers's belief that a ruler's power, like King Friday's, is ultimately dependent upon complicity or cooperation from those he or she rules, and that when the governed begin to withdraw their cooperation, as Lady Aberlin and Daniel Striped Tiger did, the power of the ruling authority begins to crumble.

The journey was thrilling. Inspiring. Exalting. And, in the end, it did not change a thing. "You would never have believed me if I'd told you," said Sheikh al-Khammas. "You had to learn the truth for yourself: the real Holy City is within.

The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.