Quotes About Faith

The central theological principle of the Bible [is] the rejection of idolatry.

When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly.

But you must still know to respect other people's faith.' 'Why? We don't respect any other delusion. We lock up people who believe they're Christ, yet we're supposed to humour those who believe in him.' 'By definition, faith is irrational: a belief you hold against the normal rules of evidence.' 'In which case I believe in Jedi

For myself I couldn't care less, but I have a lover. Not a partner, Susannah, or a friend or a significant euphemism, but the love of my life. And he believes. And I've watched him tie himself in knots, as he struggles to find a place for himself in texts that were written thousands of years ago, with the deliberate aim of excluding him.

All religions are beautiful in the story, as you say. It's when they're put into practice that they grow ugly.

As in Job God died, so also in Christ will God be made alive.

The younger the Jews, statistics showed, the shallower their religious roots.

Many Christians have put the political cart before the theological horse.

Christianity challenged Rome's most basic set of values. The peculiar, mysterious religion forced a distinction - between what it meant to be a Roman and what it meant to be a Christian. The church fathers were quite aware that they were Roman citizens, but they also understood that their faith in Christ transcended the political and social values of their day.

the Hiéron du Val d'Or was simultaneously Christian and "trans-Christian.

Jesus is generally believed to have been born around 6 B.C. The Crucifixion occurred no later than A.D. 36, which would make Jesus, at most, forty-two years of age.

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

Rastafarl should not deal with sex merely for pleasure but should incorporate it into their divine communication and cause a union which should produce children.

walk not according to the flesh but according to the spirit....

he was/is God in the same way that they themselves were God, with the difference between themselves and the emperor lying in the degree of inspiration by, or in the dwelling of, the Holy Spirit.

Haile Selassie I." One said that when he used the term, he literally meant "the power of the holy trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Rastafari is the King with the Holy Spirit. I am a King with the Holy Spirit.

transformed through Jah and the Holy Ghost the segments of Babylon that were inside of me.

Rastafari is the spirit of light; that I'm in the light of God.

W]henever the masses were let into the Church, the spiritual giants, the saints, fled to the desert.

It was her business now to believe - in the power and beauty of words, in the spirits that move among us always, in the worlds of light and dark that neighbor us - to believe in the possibility of the impossible.

The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.

If God acts only through us, it follows that there is a sense in which we are responsible not only to God but for God, or at least God's continuance, by our actions.4 Take this to heart and a great deal changes. One weight is lifted and another is taken on—a weight that does not bend our backs but gives joy to life and purchase to our step.

God is not one Fire, but every single flame of hope, of forgiveness, of effort to do good, anywhere, eternally.