Maybe the reason faith is called faith is because seeing doesn’t lead to belief, but belief transforms the way we see.
Josh RossTags: belief faith perceptions
People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.
Charles FortTags: philosophy belief psychology gullibility charles-fort
When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep
Maya AngelouTags: belief soul youth heart bad
All tastes are expressions of belief.
Zadie SmithTags: identity belief taste preference
To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
Jean-Paul SartreTags: belief
It is hard to imagine the things you have never seen.
Steven J. CarrollTags: imagination belief dreams dreaming dream believe young-adult imagine middle-grade young-adult-series young-adult-fantasy middle-grade-fantasy middle-grade-series
Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God. The atheist does not say that there is no God, but he says 'I know not what you mean by God. I am without the idea of God. The word God to me is a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation. I do not deny God, because I cannot deny that of which I have no conception, and the conception of which by its affirmer is so imperfect that he is unable to define it for me.
Charles BradlaughTags: belief atheism atheist definition clarity knowlege
Many of the innovations in science and philosophy have come from unbelievers, some of whom died for their 'unbeliefs.' Without unbelief, we might well be living in the Dark Ages or at least in the intellectual equivalent of that time.
In past centuries many theists savagely attacked atheists on the ground that someone without a belief in God must be a moral 'monster,' who would permit any action. This argument is rarely heard today, as the number of people who are openly atheists has become so large that its falsity is self-evident. Atheists do have a moral code to guide them. It is usually based upon the Golden Rule, plus a variety of utilitarian reasons, although there are a number of other possible systems. Rather than being immoral, most atheists are extremely moral.
There are a large number of people who can and do manage to lead decent upright lives with no use for a belief in God as a guide. Atheists do not care whether others believe as they do. They do ask, however, for the right to believe as they wish ....
Tags: science liberty knowledge morality freedom ethics philosophy belief atheism atheist inquiry utilitarianism golden-rule rights moral unbelief dark-ages
All children are atheists, they have no idea of God.
Paul-Henri ThiryTags: knowledge belief children atheism atheist atheists idea conception
The stories you believe to be true are the ones your life will become.
Eric Micha'el LeventhalTags: life truth perception reality belief story awareness
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