Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
It's important, too, for people to see that it only takes one person to have faith in you, to care about you,… — Vanessa Hudgens Copy Share Image
“He was in conflict with himself. There was no enjoyment in the thought that he had escaped a great danger, and in… — Norbert Jacques Copy Share Image
“Across that threshold I had been afraid to cross, things suddenly seemed so very simple. There was but a single vision, God,… — Walter J. Ciszek Copy Share Image
Society in general maintains such a vested interested in its cozy habits and solidified belief systems that it had rather die -… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“What are these deaths and revivals? It is clear that I do not live whenever I lose my faith in the existence… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Whether one believes that the faith he spawned is the world's only true religion or a preposterous fable, Joseph emerges from the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
“After everything we have endured, I must cling to the belief that our stories will collide in the end. I need hope.… — Caroline George Copy Share Image
Research is an expression of faith in the possibility of progress. The drive that leads scholars to study a topic has to… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to the fixity of sun and… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
“Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the tooth Fairy are creatures in which every child has absolute faith until it is utterly… — Jim Whitefield Copy Share Image
Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with… — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image
“It is a land bright with truth, where a man’s word is his pledge, and falsehood is banished, where children sleep safe… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
Soros has taught me that when you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes… — Stanley Druckenmiller Copy Share Image
I could say analogously that tolerance is the affable appreciation of qualities, views, and actions of other individuals which are foreign to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Psychologism is, I believe, correct only in so far as it insists upon what may be called 'methodological individualism' as opposed to… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I don't think religions will merge into a great global faith. But I do believe we're moving toward a global ideology that… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
Obama-as-dad is my favorite Obama. Obama-as-executive, with his stubborn faith in reasonableness in times absent of reason, presided over the country during… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
“If people in a community live only on the level of the human, rational, legalistic and active aspects and symbols of their… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“When you let go of control and commit yourself to happiness, it is so easy to offer compassion and forgiveness. This propels… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Faith, as such, is merely a dispositive cause of justification,— part of its causa materialis, — whereas a Sacrament is a true… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“Your beliefs don’t come out from your life experience. It’s your life experience what comes out from your beliefs. Whatever you believe,… — E. Christian Trejo Copy Share Image
“One of the simplest and yet most powerful ways we do so lies in how we frame the very question we ask… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“Some things you carry around inside you as though they were part of your blood and bones, and when that happens, there’s… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
What I feel in you is a heart full of love, a soul that glows with such warmth, a body so sensual… — Karen Brown Copy Share Image
It's interesting as a mom to reflect on your own parenting skills. The core of our beliefs may stay the same, but… — Yolanda Hadid Copy Share Image
Don't get upset with your imperfections. It's a great mistake because it leads nowhere - to get angry because you are angry,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much… — William James Copy Share Image
People who are going to get along really well know it almost as soon as they meet. You spend a little while… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Big religion was started with one goal in mind: to make money. And I'm not knocking anyone's faith, because I think there… — Jim James Copy Share Image
“He weighs the volume in his hand; this one has been the center of the whirlwind. Then DRUMMOND notices the Bible on… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Random? You'd almost think we were dealing with an identifiable enemy motivated by a distinct ideology that is drawn verbatim from a… — Andrew C. McCarthy Copy Share Image
Faith receiveth the promise, embraceth it, and comforteth the soul unspeakably with it. Faith is so great an artist in arguing and… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“JANUARY 8 The one who draws near to Him must believe that He exists and rewards those who seek Him. Hebrews 11:6… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“Due to a combination of dispositional characteristics and personal performance histories, functional performers typically expect positive performance outcomes, and dysfunctional performers typically… — Frank Gardner Copy Share Image
