Quotes of: Religious-faith Keyword

Faith is an invincible, impeccable, invisible, invigorating and intelligible trust that does not rust with time.

Anuj Somany

You can have faith that God never lets you down even when circumstances do.

Alisa Hope Wagner

Only two things in man’s consciousness defy discussion: faith and one’s marriage.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.

Tullian Tchividjian

world is not destroying because the standard of living has been deteriorated, it is destroying because the standard of faith is deteriorated.

Life

Faith like hope, if you keep on, the results are a positive lifestyle and dreams achieved.

Unarine Ramaru

Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe the possibility exists.

William Salter

When you are a kid, you find so much comfort in dancing. I was comforted.

Wendy Whelan

National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point ...

Cosmos

There are indeed moral universals — the Hebrew Bible calls them ‘the covenant with Noah’ and they form the basis of modern codes of human rights. But they exist to create space for cultural and religious difference…

The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations

Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable; hence any social, political, and religious system which proclaims freedom, yet stamps out disobedience, cannot speak the truth.

On Disobedience: Why Freedom Means Saying No to Power

While it may be impossible to 'disprove' the existence of some 'Higher Power' or abstract Creator, it is entirely possible — through analysis and research — to find discrepancies within the ancient, organized religious traditions that support the...

Disproving Christianity and Other Secular Writings

Computation, after all, implied a problem not yet solved, insights not yet achieved. There was really only one sort of program for which foreknowledge of the outcome didn't diminish the point of exercise, and Brüks had never been able to find any re...

Echopraxia

I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to express what is inexpressible, our dreams of otherness, of more.

The Ground Beneath Her Feet

[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Aunt Lavinia always had a near-religious belief that it was wicked to inflict one's personal despair on others. Any display of self-pity or self-dissatisfaction she saw as a social cruelty that was very nearly criminal.

Great Granny Webster

A person does not have to be religious to reach the top of the Ladder of Success; but every one that step onto the Ladder of Success, must have hope.

How to Trust God When All Other Resources Have Failed

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvat...

Human, All Too Human

By increasing the amount of Torah (obligatory religious laws) in the world, they were extending His presence in the world and making it more effective.

A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Her religious beliefs went first, for all she could ask of a god, or of immortality, was the gift of a place where daughters love their mothers; the other attributes of Heaven you could have for a song.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey