Absurdity Quote by William Batchelder Greene Download Open image “Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown.” — William Batchelder Greene ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absurdity Existentialism Faces Faith Reason Religion
Faith is a mental attitude that is so convinced of its own idea - which so completely accepts it - that any contradiction is… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Faith is not belief, it is the grasp on the Ultimate, an illumination. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
God -- if he really exist -- is good, alive, self-conscious, and governs all things according to his benevolent and holy providence; but the… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Thou slanting rain! Thou Hebe of the Skies, That pours out drink to Earth; thou faithful wife That with moist tears embraces her prone… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
If it be true that God and man are in one image or likeness (and the affirmation that they are so is not unplausible)… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
For man, the death of the body is inevitable, and is determined by time and circumstance; but, with proper precaution, the death of the… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
How Time doth lash us with sharp pains, Set loose our teeth, snatch wisps of hair, dim eyes -- And finally bend our backs… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Man's life is entirely in his operations, which may all be classed under three heads: he thinks, he feels, and he acts -- these… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
The rule of God is not tyranny, for it does not partake of a political or governmental character -- it is not a rule… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
The Federal Government is rendered weak to do wrong, and powerful to do right: for, as soon as it begins to go wrong, it… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Hide what you have to hide And tell what you have to tell You'll see your problems multiplied If you continually decide To faithfully… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Truth was truth, whether I darkened my eyes to it or not. — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Marriage may be polygamic, monogamic, polyandric, complex according to the Oneida pattern, or other, and is true marriage (I do not say perfect marriage)… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Some men -- not all men -- see always before them an ideal, a mental picture if you will, of what they ought to… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's… — Phil Ochs 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
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Desire is this absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. Ever optimistic, ever resourceful, desire tells us what it sees as it speeds… — Wendy Farley Copy Share Image
I've always felt that comedy doesn't just come from misery. It comes from an absurdity around that misery. — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
“Christianity would be helpless without the idea of free will and the idea of free will would be helpless without incongruity.” — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
