Many people are born into their religion. For them it is mostly a matter of legacy and convenience. Their belief is based on faith, not just in the teachings of the religion but also in the acceptance of that religion from their family and culture. F...
One should regard one's religious or denominational affiliation as a point of departure, a point of entry, not the point of arrival because on cannot confine God to a particular religion or faith tradition, and therefore should not claim one's exclus...
The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's image; so that there can be no church whose central teachings are based on it. Hence it is precisely amon...
Once we know how observant a person is in terms of church attendance, nothing that we can discover about the content of her religious faith adds anything to our understanding or prediction of her good neighborliness...In fact, the statistics suggest ...
Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the minds of political campaign managers: Preten...
I implore the atheist not to judge the religious and I implore the religious to not find fault with the atheist. Be a good religious person, or be a good atheist person. How? By putting an end to faultfinding. All do what they believe in their best i...
This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.
Progress has not brought about universal happiness...
These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science.
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.
If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.
Maybe the reason faith is called faith is because seeing doesn’t lead to belief, but belief transforms the way we see.
When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?
Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure.
One must not align himself with the beliefs that limit his thinking; free from all beliefs and superstitions; we all make difference.
Evil's when you push your agenda over someone else's. When you assert your beliefs over somebody's contrary beliefs. That's evil.
The belief in death leads meditating about life; meanwhile, the belief in life leads you thinking about death.
I have a very genuine care for individuals; I have a very genuine sense of the power of individuals to make a difference, a very genuine belief that people matter, a very genuine belief of wanting the very best for individuals.
I love belief it can move the pallet on a Ouija board or put a man into space. The problem that we have is the wrong beliefs we can't erase.
Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.
It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.
