Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.
I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.
There's never been a particular band that I've followed religiously. But I do tend to listen to sadder music.
The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.
I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.
I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.
The thirties were troublesome in Belfast, and then of course there was no work for people, and it was terribly religiously divided.
We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
When God makes a covenant with us, God says: 'I will love you with an everlasting love. I will be faithful to you, even when you run away from me, reject me, or betray me.' In our society we don’t speak much about covenants; we speak about contract...
Don’t you believe that Jacob can be healed?” some persisted, pressuring Elizabeth to believe—just believe—and Jacob would be healed. The underlying message was that Elizabeth’s faith was not strong enough to save her son. I remembered then ...
Of course, in the art class, I was the model.
Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.
Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it.
...even misplaced faith can help us gain knowledge. We try to be smart about where we put our faith and we adjust as we learn more.
Heavenly comfort, rather, is truth, which blows away human fantasies that we can live forever, control everything, or fake our lives before God.
Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white.
We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.
Indeed, not all attacks—especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin—are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.
Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another, and not because it contributes a...
What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.
