Belief Quotes - Page 14

I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

From the house of unbelief
to true religion
is a single breath;
From the world of doubt
to certainty
is a single breath;
Enjoy this precious single breath,
for the harvest
of our whole lives
is that same one breath.

He respected the power of faith, the benevolence of churches, the strength religion gave so many people . . . and yet, for him, the one intellectual suspension of disbelief that was imperative if one were truly going to "believe" had always proved too big an obstacle for his academic mind. "I want to believe," he heard himself say.

Religions are all living faiths and their essence does not consist in their externals such as rituals, methods of prayer, ceremonies, etc. It rather consist in the inner beliefs and convictions which they carry along with them and which give their followers a distinctive character and way of life.

We should be cautiously open to the spiritual and non-rational, and skeptical of the more invisible magical thinking - what we might call “magical reason” - pervading secular thought and experience in modern society. Science and technology are for most people a new religion, and their orthodoxies are believed with the same fervor.

Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs.

Living by faith, living by hope.

Blasphemy is the crime of not taking someone's beliefs as seriously as they do.

We should not influence our children to such a belief or religion. We should just show them the path of goodness; and from that, they can choose according to their interests.

I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas Tree Agnostic.

I'm aagnostic, meaning I don't even know whether I'm agnostic or not.

Lifeboats are decked out on the sides of a ship waiting for when disaster strikes, faith on the other hand is a part of you for whenever.

You can't have a church town without belief and you can't have belief without intolerance.

In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary, things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.

Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner.

One of, if not the only, driving motive that prompts the majority to think that science cannot explain everything and therefore we need to believe in God and religion is simply laziness and inability to do science.

There was no truth in anything he said, anything he believed. It was all just an expression of his own needs.

It is not needful for our dreams to be very grand nor very big. It is only needful for our dreams to be very shiny.

Facts? What are facts? I only know imagination!