Quotes About Beliefs

Religions are immune to change and the old ideologies remain the same throughout the age.

Sometimes, we resist to accept different views or break away from the kinds of nonsense that we hold dear to ourselves.

The existence of different religions and ideologies is the only proof of the existence of free-will or freedom of choice.

The man who claimed money was the root of all evil had no idea what he was talking about. Different generations, or eras, will come up with different solutions.

The matter of heart is more personal than accepting the opinions of others.

The truest definition of culture is that it contains all the human activities.

Theologians have done more harm than religious beliefs. Just as metaphysicians have confused our minds with abstract concepts.

Basic stewardship of resources for married couples who are believers centers around understanding and practicing two fundamental financial principles: tithing and budgeting. Herein lie the seeds of dominion—the secrets of fruitfulness, increase, and filling. Tithing recognizes God as the source of our resources while budgeting recognizes our responsibility to God to manage those resources wisely.

A mother has far greater influence on her children than anyone else, and she must realize that every word she speaks, every act, every response, her attitude, even her appearance and manner of dress affect the lives of her children and the whole family. It is while the child is in the home that he gains from his mother the attitudes, hopes, and beliefs that will determine the kind of life he will live and the contribution he will make to society.

Paul developed something we can appropriately call his 'theology', a radical mutation in the core beliefs of his Jewish world, because only so could he sustain what we can appropriately call the 'worldview' which he held himself and which he longed for his churches to hold as well.

We have portrayed God not as the generous Creator, the loving Father, but as an angry despot. That idea belongs not in the biblical picture of God, but with pagan beliefs.

myth" in this strict sense is a story that purports to be in some sense "historical" and that encapsulates and reinforces the strongly held beliefs of the community that tells it.

This brings us to the second Enlightenment assumption often taken for granted today: that political beliefs and attitudes come in two packages, and that everyone has to choose one or the other.

Ce sentiment de n'appartenir à aucun groupe politique, professionnel ou culturel, de n'être liée à aucune communauté idéologique, religieuse ou intellectuelle où il soit possible de se reconnaître en d'autres, des semblables qui puissent entendre et faire entendre un jugement équitable, suivant des règles acceptées par tous, c'est cela qui me manque et me manquera toujours telle que je suis.

An astute observer wrote in 1924 that American voters preferred to "cherish the unrealities they have absorbed" based upon "the primal instinct to defeat the side they hate or fear.

When I speak to teachers, it's always remarkable to me how unaware they are of the research literature—especially young teachers or student teachers." Yet when it comes to homework, most teachers are true believers.

Listening to counsel or ways of thinking that are not according to the Truth is the first step in developing wrong beliefs that will ultimately place us in bondage. Once we have listened to the lie, the next step toward bondage is that we . . .   DWELL ON THE LIE.

The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay...I don't see the point of sad parties, do you? And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.

liberalism denies that there is any fixed or universal human nature.

Many people concluded that morality does not qualify as objective truth. It consists of merely personal feelings and preferences.

But what progressives fail to understand is that every social practice rests on certain assumptions of what the world is like—a worldview. When a society accepts the practice, it absorbs the worldview that justifies it.

worldview, the convictions by which we direct our lives.

As an independent source of authority and knowledge, science has always had the capacity to challenge ruling powers' ability to control people by controlling their beliefs. Indeed, it has the power to challenge anyone who wishes to preserve, protect, or defend the status quo.