Quotes of: Blind-faith Keyword

When I tell other Christians of my time with the goddess, I think they expect me to characterize it as a period in my life when I was misguided, and that I have now thankfully come back to both Jesus and my senses. But it's not like that. I can't ima...

Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

Alline knew that he could not do anything to make himself more saved, for the righteousness of Christ was sufficient. But he did see that what he did on the earth now would matter greatly in heaven. What he sowed now he would reap later. He saw the g...

Uncompromising Faith: Brief Pen Sketches of George Whitefield, John Cennick, George Fox, and Henry Alline

There is, however, one way of speaking that I've tried to avoid. Rather than refer to someone as "a homosexual," I've taken care always to make "gay" or "homosexual" the adjective, and never the noun, in a longer phrase, such as "gay Christian" or "h...

Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality

Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true. The whole defence of religious faith hinges upon action. If the action required or ...

The Will to Believe, Human Immortality, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

Darth Sidious: I have waited a long time for this moment, my little green friend. At last, the Jedi are no more. Yoda: Not if anything to say about it I have! [Yoda force flings Darth Sidious across the room and across his desk] Yoda: At an end your ...

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.

The Case for the Real Jesus: A Journalist Investigates Current Attacks on the Identity of Christ

From now on there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.

The Cost of Discipleship

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

Change of Heart

I don't think there's anything wrong with borrowing someone else's faith to get you through until you get enough on your own.

Collision

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

Confessor

Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.

With Christ in the School of Prayer

These were people who hunted for a way to erase the haunted, malnourished gaze from their souls and replace it with their faith in freedom and safety.

Caged in Spirit

There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.

Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Faith ― acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

The Da Vinci Code

the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

The Denial of Death

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.

Death Masks

The body is not a task to be completed but a gift we receive from God himself.

Earthen Vessels: Why Our Bodies Matter To Our Faith

It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.

Everything You Know

Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.

Faith and Doubt

Freedom requires effort if it is to be won and vigilance if it is to be maintained. People just don't value freedom until it is taken away.

Faith of the Fallen

Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.

Faithful Place