Quotes About Faith

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.

I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

A true believer is a danger to humanity.

of God ever refusing anyone who came to Him seeking healing.

He is not holding any of His blessings back from you because of something you have done wrong.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

sometimes it's better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn't know

To know something, he argued, was not the same as to be certain beyond all doubt. And to believe something was definitely not the same as to know it.

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Love what you will never believe twice.

The faithful of Shiva or Dionysus seek contact with those forces which...lead to a refusal of the politics, ambitions and limitations of ordinary social life. This does not involve simply a recognition of world harmony, but also an active participation in an experience which surpasses and upsets the order of material life.

Human efforts are ineffective" (N'atthi purisakare) was the slogan of the Âjîvikä(s).

In the Bible, man is only free to submit or be damned. His one freedom is the renunciation of that freedom. He finds his "salvation" by freely accepting his subjugation. The Christian ideal, says Saint Paul, is to be freely "subservient to God" (Romans 6:22).

Nor is there any valid reason to reject the idea of God or the notion of the sacred just because of the sickly expression Christianity has given to them, any more than it is necessary to break with aristocratic principles on the pretext that they have been caricatured by the bourgeoisie.

One can have a society without God," writes Régis Debray, "but there cannot be a society without religion." He adds, "Those nations on the way to disbelief are on the path to abdication." One can also cite Georges Bataille, according to whom, "religion, whose essence is the search for lost intimacy, boils down to a clearly conscious effort to become entirely self-conscious.

Faith and science thus find themselves reconciled, not in the way of the scholastic, who claims to prove the reality of his dogmatic propositions by means of universal reason, but by the assertion of the overall oneness of the real that has no double or reflection.

Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

Paul Sills said "Reach into the dark and get the answer." That stuck with me. If you had the courage not to know the answer beforehand, it would come to you. If you could trust yourself *not knowing* was an exciting place to be.

But God, whatever else He is, and of course He is everything else, is not a fool.

Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light

God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brains and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up. I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death...is the true measure of the Divine within us.

But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life." -Damien