Belief Quote by Robert Neelly Bellah Download Open image “It's clear all the way through history that practices are primary and beliefs are secondary.” — Robert Neelly Bellah ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Belief Clear Faith History Practice Primaries Way
If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions. — Martin E. Marty Copy Share Image
There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Even if another tradition goes against our own convictions, it has its own reason for being, in the support it provides for others.” — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Understanding different national, cultural, and religious traditions is no longer a luxury; it is now a necessity and must become a priority. The” — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition. — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution at some… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
While there are practical and sometimes moral reasons for the decomposition of the family, it coincides neither with what most people in society say… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
...for limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long history of… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Yet Buddhism is four hundred years older than Christianity, and if it's not a universal religion I don't know what a universal religion is.… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
We never get to the bottom of ourselves on our own. We discover who we are face to face and side by side with… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
The academic world is one of the few places where prejudice is supposed to be totally banned, and we're politically correct on everything, but… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Human culture, in evolutionary terms, moves from episodic, to mimetic, to mythic, to theoretic - that made all kinds of sense. To some extent,… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
We're [humans] running great risks of doing things that will not be good for us. The cost can be very high indeed if we… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Women have entered the work force . . . partly to express their feelings of self-worth . . . partly because today many families… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
“Cine a ucis stelele? Cine a surpat drumul spre viitor al celor din morminte?” — Ionel Teodoreanu Copy Share Image
“MIND & GRIND Self-belief and hard work can propel you past more talented peers” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
It took me 20 years of hard training to get the physique I have today. what you need is what i had - BELIEF… — Branch Warren Copy Share Image
“Here is a fundamental difference between the man of faith and the man of unbelief. The unbeliever is 'of the world', judges everything by… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“Rigid traditions capture souls prisons of spiritual thought man’s religion has captured a god grown too small and very weak.” — David W Earle Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves… — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image