Quotes About Beliefs

God hates both the reprobate and his evil deeds, precisely because a person is the sum of his beliefs, thoughts, and actions.

In so many church situations, nobody thinks they have problems. They simply have convictions and they're trying to get everyone else to live up to them.

Il ne dit rien de ce qu'il pense. Il pense que personne n'est solide. Aucun groupe. Que c'est le plus difficile à apprendre. Qu'on est les locataires des situations, jamais les propriétaires.

We all know about morality, and we all know about duty, but at the same time we find that in different countries the significance of morality varies greatly.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

To get help from without, extract the good where you can find it. And this starts from within: the right mental attitude toward persons, places, things, knowledge, customs, beliefs-be they your own or others.

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Tell me what you see vanishing and I will tell you who you are

The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.

If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.

If you feel irritated or threatened by others' beliefs, it's a sign that you're experiencing crisis of confidence.

The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans.

Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.

The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the "other side.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

For superforecasters, beliefs are hypotheses to be tested, not treasures to be guarded.

Foresight isn't a mysterious gift bestowed at birth. It is the product of particular ways of thinking, of gathering information, of updating beliefs. These habits of thought can be learned and cultivated by any intelligent, thoughtful, determined person.

As a Christian, my main concern is not to downgrade others' beliefs but to examine my own.

Jesus did not mix his spirituality with politics.

The young church was nourished spiritually by apostles who set down their beliefs and messages in a series of letters. The first 13 such letters (Romans through Philemon) were written by the apostle Paul, who led the advance of Christianity through the non-Jewish world.

Obviously, Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves.

Legalism is a subtle danger because no one thinks of himself as a legalist. My own rules seem necessary; other people's rules seem excessively strict.

Lo llamaban convivencia: vivir unos junto a otros en armonía, sin importar sus creencias, puesto que el enemigo no es aquel que cree en un dios; el enemigo es la ignorancia y la gente que no cree en nada y no se preocupa por nada.