Belief In God Quotes - Page 5

• It is not my place to make judgments about the behavior of any other footballer. Cars and women, things like that, have never been important to me. My family, and my belief in God and Jesus are the things which determine my life. I do want to live my life in the right way, and live my life close to God.

  Kaka

  Jesus, Car, Important

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• I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.

  Evel Knievel

  Children, Thinking, Engineering

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• In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence, God’s justice, God’s love. The love of God is essentially a thought experience. In the Eastern religions and in mysticism, the love of God is an intense feeling experience of oneness, inseparably linked with the expression of this love in every act of living.

  Erich Fromm

  Religious, Expression, Oneness

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.83, Open Road Media

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• Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.

  Edward Abbey

  Believe, Feet, Rocks

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks

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• In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Spirit, Belief, Particular

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 375, 1982.

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• I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my prayer. You are my belief in God. For better or worse you inherit me.

  Anne Sexton

  Love, Prayer, Heart

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.342, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nothing, absolutely nothing, has a more direct bearing on the moral choices made by individuals or the purposes pursued by society than belief or disbelief in God.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Choices Made, Atheism, Purpose

  Ravi Zacharias (2004). “The Real Face of Atheism”, p.21, Baker Books

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• What is it about our specific belief in God and His wishes that makes us so angry at the specific beliefs of another? What is it about the teachings of our respective deities that makes us more right than the next person? Or more wrong?

  Chuck Austen

  Teaching, Wish, Next

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• Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality.

  Karen Armstrong

  Religious, Regret, Reality

  "A History of God". Book by Karen Armstrong, 1993.

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• When the theory of evolution destroyed the picture of God as the supreme Creator, confidence in God as the all-powerful Father of man fell with it, although many were able to combine a belief in God with the acceptance of the Darwinian theory.

  Erich Fromm

  Powerful, Father, Acceptance

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

  Jack Germond

  Degrees, Voters, Belief

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• Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

  Robert Vaughn

  Men, Afterlife, People

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• So much confusion about belief in God, morality, and science arises, not from what people say they believe, but rather from mistaken assumptions about God, morality, and science that they don't know they believe. In Three Theological Mistakes, Ric Machuga, with clarity and grace, explains the genesis of these mistakes and provides the intellectual tools by which we can recover from them.

  Francis J. Beckwith

  Mistake, Believe, People

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• If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up to us. If we don't do it, who will?

  Bob Riley

  Country, Believe, Belief

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• I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

  Sela Ward

  Spiritual, Strong, Believe

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• Atheism has become a major threat to the church. New Atheists tend to be articulate and belligerent. They are aggressively engaging in "atheist evangelism," determined to stamp out every vestige of belief in God, which they insist is not only "stupid" but "wicked."

  Dave Hunt

  Atheist, Stupid, Wicked

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• I do believe that a belief in God is crazy, but that doesn't mean that the people who believe in it are crazy. Those are two different things. Ideas can be stupid and crazy, and the people who hold those ideas are not necessarily stupid and crazy.

  Penn Jillette

  Stupid, Crazy, Believe

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's fantastic to believe, because they get so many benefits. I get mad at the atheist community when they put down believers because they put down religion so much. Now I am an atheist, but I don't like to describe myself with that term. I prefer secular humanist. But I do see first hand how beneficial religion is, for example if you are a refugee getting in a boat to take you across the Mediterranean, a belief in God is an advantage. I completely understand that comfort.

  Julia Sweeney

  Atheist, Believe, Mad

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Kant considers belief in God and immortality to be items of "faith" because he relates faith to the pursuit of ends - in this case, the highest good.

  Allen W. Wood

  Belief, Immortality, Pursuit

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• A belief in God may not be fully within me anymore, but there's still a belief in belief. The high drama and power of the Church has stayed with me. As a child in church, I saw grown men at the altar crying out for God's mercy. And the idea of someone doing that has become a joke in the popular culture, but when you are there and you see it, you experience - for a moment - an incredibly raw, honest, strange insight into what it means to be a human being. Those experiences don't leave you. Whatever you think of them, they are powerful experiences.

  Ayana Mathis

  Children, Powerful, Drama

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It is significant that the socialist mentality is usually also an atheistic mentality, where atheism is understood not so much as the disbelief in God as the hatred of God˜an attitude as precarious logically as it has been destructive in practice. There is an important sense in which religion as traditionally understood reconciles humanity to imperfection and to failure. Since the socialist sets out to abolish failure, traditional religion is worse than _de trop_: it is an impediment to perfection.

  Roger Kimball

  Attitude, Practice, Perfection

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• There are absolute atheists ... Absolute atheism is in no way a mere absence of belief in God. It is rather a refusal of God, a fight against God, a challenge to God.

  Jacques Maritain

  Atheist, Fighting, Challenges

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• The bottom line is not money but some sort of demonic compulsion that drives these people to lash out against Jesus Christ, against Christians, and against anyone who holds to a sincere belief in God, in spite of the fact that it is going to cost them tens of millions of dollars to do it. They are driven to 'make a statement' regardless of the consequences.

  Michael Medved

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• Tim Keller's ministry in New York City is leading a generation of seekers and skeptics toward belief in God. I thank God for him.

  Billy Graham

  New York, Cities, Thank God

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• "Atheist" is quite clear in its meaning of "somebody without a belief in God." It is more complex in its usage since it has often been used to blacken anyone with the slightest doubt about the teachings of religion.

  Jim Herrick

  Atheist, Teaching, Doubt

  Jim Herrick (1985). “Against the Faith: Essays on Deists, Skeptics, and Atheists”

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