Quotes About Beliefs

several tech-types; heavily idealistic about total access they all sailed close to anarchistic beliefs, believing all information should be free.

There is so much that old Earth's religions have in common; so many identical beliefs and tenets and wisdoms. But their followers are forced apart by names, by priests who have grown decadent and greedy for physical reward. Whole peoples, whole planets who denounce one another so that a few evil men can wear robes of golden cloth.

You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.

experience with parents as pivotal in shaping an individual's values, beliefs, character, and, naturally, dysfunctions in adaptation.

Antisemitism is a categorical impugning of Jews as collectively embodying distasteful and/or destructive traits. In other words, antisemitism is the belief that Jews have common repellent and/or ruinous qualities that set them apart from non-Jews. Descent is determinative; individuality is illusory.

Sometimes they seemed to grasp instinctively at the worst of both worlds: the worst modern habits, the worst traditional beliefs.

Those who self-righteously value their own contradictions are mighty on this Earth.

Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.

the gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, whether from one end of the earth or the other),

Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.

When you say, ëLet us be like the nations, like the peoples of the lands, serving wood and stone,í what you have in mind will never come to pass.

So the Pharisees and scribes questioned Jesus: “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders? Instead, they eat with defiled hands.”

by promoting customs that are unlawful for us Romans to adopt or practice.”

While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply disturbed in his spirit to see that the city was full of idols.

For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”

Then Paul stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that in every way you are very religious.

As soon as he had said this, a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.

What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?

First of all, I hear that when you come together as a church, there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.

but test all things. Hold fast to what is good.