Quotes About Faith

I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Much blood has been spilled over words, and a great deal of it over the word 'God.' (125)

What is harvested in the world is composed of four elements: water, earth, wind, and light. What God harvests is also composed of four elements: faith [pistis], hope [elpis], love [agap], and contemplation [gnosis]. Our earth is faith, for she gives us roots. Water is our hope, for it slakes our thirst. Wind [pneuma] is the love [agap] through which we grow; and light is the contemplation [gnosis] through which we ripen.

People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned, as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in. I want them to know I will do what I can, but there are limits to what any particular person - irrespective of the title they currently hold - can do.

We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families.

Just because something is unbelievable does not mean you shouldn't believe it. Put another way, some things are worth believing in whether they're true or not.

A common example of Spiritual Dissonance would be; If God loves us, why does He allow so much suffering? The certainty of God's love is the internal belief. The obviousness of human suffering is the external reality. Is God unable to end suffering? No, we must answer, because He can do whatever He wants. Therefore, He must allow or even cause suffering. But how can that be if He loves us? Something somewhere has to give or, preferably, we avoid asking the question in the first place.

The truth is that no belief is true, and to say that any belief is true is to open the floodgates and say that all beliefs are true.

To surrender is to relinquish the illusion of control, which initiates the death part of the death/rebirth process, which is the transition from the bondage of the womb-like Segregated State to the freedom of the ever-expanding Integrated State. No faith or belief is required to accomplish this act of surrender, only clear-seeing. When one begins to understand ego and fear for what they really are, then this process becomes as easy and natural as dropping a heavy weight.

Ultimately, everything you think you know is really just something you believe.

Surrender is victory.

Her nevroz, kiÅŸi için bir dindir ve din, insanoÄŸlunun evrensel nevrozudur. Åžu hiç ÅŸüphesiz doÄŸru: Tanr?'ya atfettiÄŸimiz özellikler ve güçler, önce bebekken ve sonra da küçük çocukken ta??d???m?z korkular? ve dileklerimizi yans?t?yor.

Hope's interesting, isn't it? I can't turn hope off, it's hopeless.

I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.

Regardless of what occurs on earth, what goes well, what doesn't go well, and all the things that challenge humanity and challenge us personally, the sun continues to rise every morning.

I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.

It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.

It was the night before the end of the world.

No one listening [to Jones' sermons], even those who were the most devoted to him, could take it all in. But at some point each follower heard something that reaffirmed his or her personal reason for belonging to Peoples Temple, and for believing in Jim Jones. As Jonestown historian Fielding McGehee observes, "What you thought Jim said depended on who you were.

If anything was certain, it was that there would always be people looking for someone to tell them what to believe in and what to do.

Let me assure you doubters?there really is a Santa Claus. I learned from working on this book that you don't need to go to the North Pole to find him. It's only necessary to look into your own heart.

Jimmy's two earliest and most enduring lessons from his mother were these: there was always some Them out to get you, and reality was whatever you believed.

Belief is frequently a matter of convenience rather than the result of objectively weighing evidence.