Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs.
Friedrich SchleiermacherTags: belief christianity religion piety
The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction—that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist—and before any science there is first of all belief.
Max PlanckTags: science einstein belief conscience physics albert-einstein conviction
People act what they truly believe.
John F. MacArthur Jr.Tags: belief
Belief isn't supposed to make sense, at least not all the time. In that, it finds its power. It gets to creep up on you and carry you forward. Until you can carry yourself again.
Laura DaveTags: inspiration belief
The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.
Bill HicksTags: humor love belief death atheism suffering hell question lord forgiving message damnation eternal-suffering infinite-love options
The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every
doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these
things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now
being taken as descriptions.
He loved to quote the Eastern saying "When the sage points
to the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
Tags: belief doctrine unknowing
Impossibility only lasts until you find new unbelievable hard evidences.
Toba BetaTags: science life inspirational perception belief will possibility spirit proof
Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.
Markus ZusakTags: life belief faith memory
Believe, my child. Faith is the food of survival.
Tobsha LearnerTags: inspiration belief faith
He believes, but he does not believe: the impossibility of believing is the impossibility which he accepts most reluctantly, but still it is there with the other impossibilities of this world which is too full of weeping for a child to understand.
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