“It’s quite a task to combat the absolutists and the relativists at the same time: to maintain that there is no totalitarian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I try to keep composure as my spirit is implodin on top of my own world on a cloud I gaze focused… — Dru Stone Copy Share Image
“I want to suggest to you that citizens of free societies, democracies, do not preserve their freedom by pussyfooting around their fellow-citizen's… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“...To trust in the strength of God in our weakness; to say, ‘I am weak: so let me be: God is strong;’… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“WHY PARADIGMS MATTER Ideas drive results. People's beliefs drive their actions. Actions that stem from a simple, complete and accurate paradigm result… — Patricia E. West Copy Share Image
“Oh, with my pathetic, earthly, Euclidean mind, I know only that there is suffering, that none are to blame, that all things… — Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov Copy Share Image
“Ecologically considered, it is not primarily our verbal statements that are "true" or "false," but rather the kind of relations that we… — David Abram Copy Share Image
“In a last-ditch effort, some readers may pathetically attack the scientific method, claiming that all subjective perspective is flawed and cannot be… — Shmuel Pernicone Copy Share Image
“My belief is that, morally, God and Satan are vaguely on the same page. According to the common understanding of Satan's origins,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Don't be scared by the word authority. Believing things on authority only means believing them because you've been told them by someone… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“God, then, does not profess to answer in Scripture all the questions that we, in our boundless curiosity, would like to ask… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“Maybe every author needs to keep faith with Nabokov, and every reader with Barthes. For how can you write, believing in Barthes?… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Grave What do you think of my new glasses I asked as I stood under a shade tree before the joined grave… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Saying a prayer can be as simple as thinking positive thoughts about someone—it’s not an act that needs to be tied to… — Tom Walsh Copy Share Image
“We all go through hard times in life. It’s a part of being alive and it's the reality we all have to… — Chanda Kaushik Copy Share Image
“The process occurs in two stages. The first step is to grant law enforcement officials extraordinary discretion regarding whom to stop, search,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“We have already seen that when positive authority suggests a change in behavior, the recipient will accept it provided he is capable… — Milton Rokeach Copy Share Image
“No sooner, in fact, had I sent it off than a curious reaction came over me. It seemed to me that I… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The predisposition to religious belief is an ineradicable part of human behavior. Mankind has produced 100,000 religions. It is an illusion to… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The genius of the divine way of salvation by faith is that in it we are personally, actively united to Jesus Christ,… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Faith is all about trusting God even when you don’t understand His plan. God could have healed David just like He restored… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
“What do they mean when they say: “I do not like your poems; you have no faith whatever. You seem neither to… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“The comparison of religions is only possible, in some measure, through the miraculous virtue of sympathy. We can know men to a… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“[Religious belief] is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Richard Dawkins regards faith as an evil to be eliminated; he takes all religious faith to be blind faith. (Dawkins says) ‘Scientific… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
“Tom has been having a difficult patch, and we meet at the church of IKEA as often as possible, because it is… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“There is a common response from people when they hear that in the absence of evidence to convince me otherwise I don’t… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
“It’s no secret that we all live within a damning illusion called denial. We are doomed by our own far-reaching imaginations and… — Christopher Hawke Copy Share Image
“As proof of her faith, my mother used to carry a samll leatherette Bible when she went to the First Chinese Baptist… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt. The human… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I've always felt that there was something pathetic in the founders of religion who made it a condition of salvation that you… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us. Making a long-term commitment… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
“In all important transactions of life we have to take a leap in the dark.... If we decide to leave the riddles… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
“major argument of this book is that Americans are not just exceptionally religious but that our dominant religion has become exceptionally literal… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“As I watched and observed, day after day, week after week, month after month, even year after year, one day I had… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Politically we feel alienated, rejected, and hopeless. The chasm between the people and their political representatives has widened to a terrifying degree.… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
“The thoughtless, the ignorant, and the indolent, seeing only the apparent effects of things and not the things themselves, talk of luck,… — James Allen Copy Share Image
“So-called Islamic 'fundamentalism' does not spring, in Pakistan, from the people. It is imposed on them from above. Autocratic regimes find it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community. Those who have survived learn that their sense of self, of worth,… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“But it is common knowledge that religions don’t want conviction, on the basis of reasons, but faith, on the basis of revelation.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
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