God lives in the peaks and valleys, the jarring transitions, not in the mundane, the safe, the smooth, or the repetitive. But that means there must be at least a certain amount of dissonance. Without dissonance, there is no need of belief, and without belief there surely is no God.
Neil AbramsonBelief compelled through fear is not belief, it is blind and forced obedience.
Carlton D. PearsonAnd if there is no god?
You act as if there is, and it's the same thing.
I believed our touching to be more intense because of it's very holding back. Belief is always a choice.
Jane GreenLord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you...and protect me, for today I could betray you.
Augustine of HippoPeople tend to look on the beliefs of the past as being primitive and unintelligent, yet we are seeing more truth in the past every day.
Jennifer L. ArmentroutTags: truth past present belief
You can’t become who you’re supposed to be if you keep looking back on what might have been.” - Alexis
Candace KnoebelYou can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe until the event. Until it's too late. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble
Chuck PalahniukTags: truth belief religion faith
God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed, for its advocates even to say this without instantly contradicting themselves. Their doctrine frightens them. They explain in various ways that a great many people will be saved without believing, and that eternal damnation is not eternal nor damnation.
Leslie StephenTags: belief christianity god religion hell
Such is the facility with which mankind believe at one and the same time things inconsistent with one another, and so few are those who draw from what they receive as truths, any consequences but those recommended to them by their feelings, that multitudes have held the undoubting belief in an Omnipotent Author of Hell, and have nevertheless identified that being with the one best conception they were able to form of perfect goodness.
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