Quotes of: Blind-faith Keyword

Every herd is a refuge for giftlessness, whether it's a faith in Soloviev, or Kant, or Marx. Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently.

Doctor Zhivago

If I have the gift of the prophecy, and can fathom all mystery's and knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

ESV Study Bible

From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.

The Elephant in the Dark

We want all the benefits of the resurrection without acknowledging our dependence on God as mortal creatures.

Earthen Vessels: Why Our Bodies Matter To Our Faith

Apparently, the easiest way to overcome any awkwardness of speaking about sex is to sterilize it and outsource it to the professionals.

Earthen Vessels: Why Our Bodies Matter To Our Faith

We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.

Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization

And God's epic grace shows us how to rise above our pain and circumstances with enduring hope and faith in him.

Epic Grace: Chronicles of a Recovering Idiot

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love.

Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.

The First Phone Call from Heaven

A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way.

Faithful Place

We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.

Faithful Place

Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine

Floating in My Mother's Palm

Numbers still gave Astrid pleasure. That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two equaled four. And math never, ever condemned you for your thoughts and desires.

Fear

So much of how we think, feel, and live depends on our vision-what we choose to see in any given situation.

Faith Deployed...Again: More Daily Encouragement for Military Wives

The Bible is the most important part of your faith.

Following God with All Your Heart: Believing and Living God's Plan for You

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists

God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.

Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.

Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

When you have got the greatest mountain of hardship that you’ve ever faced to deal with, you also have the greatest opportunity to act on a stronger faith than you’ve ever acted on before.

Growing in the Presence of God

Underneath all notions of justice is a set of faith assumptions that are essentially religious, and these are often not acknowledged.

Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just