Analysis Quote by Peter Leithart

The assumption that the laws of nature are eternal is a vestige of the Christian belief system that informed the early postulates of modern…

— Rupert Sheldrake

“Jesus died for our sins” has been understood. Among some Christians, it is seen as an essential doctrinal element in the Christian belief system.…

— Marcus J. Borg

“Milton puts it most profoundly when he says, Well knows he who uses to consider, that our faith and knowledge thrives by exercise, as…

— Karen Swallow Prior

Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of…

— John Milton

My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a…

— Diane Setterfield

A genuinely persuasive argument does not merely tell you that you are wrong about everything. It doesn't just beat on you from the outside.…

— Timothy Keller

I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of…

— Robert Anton Wilson

My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to…

— Winona Ryder

While 'Buddhism' suggests another belief system, 'dharma practice' suggests a course of action. The four ennobling truths are not propositions to believe; they are…

— Stephen Batchelor

I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily.…

— Tana French

Inside we are all Golden Buddha's, but we grew to believe we were made of clay. Our ego's false perceptions led us to grow…

— Gabrielle Bernstein

The issue is that if you hold onto the resentment against yourself, you're just going to recreate that destructive pattern in different forms because…

— Gabrielle Bernstein