Quotes of: Different-faiths Keyword

Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.

Emil Cioran

At first sight, joy seems to be connected with being different. When you receive a compliment or win an award, you experience the joy of not being the same as others. You are faster, smarter, more beautiful, and it is that difference that brings you ...

Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith

Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's 'Jupiter Symphony' is sublime and beautiful?' There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - 'How do ...

N. T. Wright

A couple you do not recognize - visitors, strangers - come to the door. How are you to view these people and what is your responsibility towards them? ... To assume that these visitors are really like you, that there are no real difference between yo...

Beyond the Worship Wars: Building Vital and Faithful Worship

Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing, but I don't believe that myself. Because there are too many different ideas on the subject. What we is this: When we die, one of t...

Pet Sematary

Maybe the reason faith is called faith is because seeing doesn’t lead to belief, but belief transforms the way we see.

Scarred Faith: When Doubts Become Allies of Deep Faith

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy.

Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?

Valerie Bertinelli

My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the songs I heard on the radio. I'd change little things in the music and write different lyrics.

Esperanza Spalding

In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.

Tom Hiddleston

Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts.

Alcee Hastings

Whether or not evolution is compatible with faith, science and religion represent two extremely different worldviews, which, if they coexist at all, do so most uncomfortably.

Leonard Susskind

Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.

Maria Monk

We are defending Christianity; not "my religion". When we mention our personal opinions we must always make quite clear the difference between them and the Faith itself.

C.S. Lewis

I love Earth Day, when once each year people of different backgrounds and faiths gather together to bury an environmentalist alive.

John Alejandro King

Faith has no eyes; he who asks to see has no faith.

Portuguese

Faith must withstand time. It can’t be a here today and gone tomorrow kind of trust.

21 Stories of Faith: Real People, Real Stories, Real Faith

Confound not faith and feeling together. They are distinct. Faith is ours to exercise. Believe, believe. Let your faith take hold of the blessing, and it is yours by faith. Your feelings have nothing to do with this faith.

Ellen G. White

A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.

Indian

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnosti...

Ridley Scott

Here is a fundamental difference between the man of faith and the man of unbelief. The unbeliever is 'of the world', judges everything by worldly standards, views life from the standpoint of time and sense, and weighs everything in the balances of hi...

The Sovereignty of God