The number of people who believe a thing has no bearing upon its truth.
Marie SextonWe must be careful more than ever what we let our hearts believe in.
Solange nicoleTags: deception belief faith life-lessons solange
These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.
Criss JamiTags: passion belief christianity religion judgment hypocrisy spirituality criticism christian opposition conflict disagreement apologetics gospel prosperity exaggeration legalism bickering debating arguing denominations argumentation lukewarm
I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.
Criss JamiTags: humor science belief faith funny crying evolution short-temper successor
If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.
Criss JamiTags: politics love difference opinions people belief hate religion opinion controversy rebellion rebel make-a-difference effectiveness controversial protesting debating arguing difference-of-opinion
In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in fear of God; albeit, the true foundation should be one's clinging to God in fear of God.
Criss JamiTags: fear politics truth love world society philosophy belief christianity god faith liberalism liberal political-philosophy essence conservatism political apologetics modern conservative foundation general generalizations basic clinging
The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.
Criss JamiTags: humor family people belief nationalism patriotism patriotic funny arrogance logic sarcasm statistics mystery illogical pride true country superiority superior inferiority nation bias funny-but-true patriot clan irrational sarcastic percent arrogant inferior estimate estimated estimation percentage prideful stat statistic stats
Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.
Criss JamiTags: art opinions belief speech expression creativity self-expression conversation battle speechless
It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent. On the contrary, teachings can be either taken or dismissed; whereas voting is the only thing the average person can do to force everyone to live how they would prefer. A simple vote is among the largest yet most acceptable forms of bigotry, and that is because people play the card only when they feel that in doing so it conveniences themselves.
Criss JamiTags: politics philosophy belief hypocrisy selfishness philosophers pride voting bigotry apologetics convictions teachings hypocrites theologians convenience evangelists
I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?
Criss JamiTags: free-will belief god dream hypocrisy denial uncertainty mother skepticism crime confusion rhetorical apologetics atrocities imprisonment agenda blame bias son scrutiny self-interest biases
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