Faith Quotes - Page 38

• I don't know what my future holds, but I do know who holds my future.

  Tim Tebow

  Motivational, God's Grace, My Future

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• You plus God equals enough.

  Zig Ziglar

  Enough, Plus

  Zig Ziglar (2002). “Zig: The Autiobiography of Zig Ziglar”, p.169, WaterBrook

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• Now is the dwelling place of God himself.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Dwelling Place, Dwelling

  Thomas Raymond Kelly (1987). “The Eternal Promise: A Sequel to A Testament of Devotion”

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• When you turn to God you discover He has been facing you all the time.

  Zig Ziglar

  Turns, Turn To God, Has Beens

  Zig Ziglar, Dwight "Ike" Reighard (2013). “The One Year Daily Insights with Zig Ziglar”, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one side, and the great ignorant religious mass on the other. This is the war between Science and Faith. The few have appealed to reason, to honor, to law, to freedom, to the known, and to happiness here in this world. The many have appealed to prejudice, to fear, to miracle, to slavery, to the unknown, and to misery hereafter. The few have said "Think" The many have said "Believe!"

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religious, War, Believe

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.51, Library of Alexandria

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• No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will submit themselves to torture and to death, mothers will immolate [burn] their children at the bidding of beliefs they thus accept.

  Henry George

  Mother, Children, Acceptance

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• Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Order, Belief, Effects

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• As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we gamble on verbal structures that have no observable empirical structures, such gambling can never give us any structural information about the world. Therefore such verbal structures are structurally obsolete, and if we believe in them, they induce delusions or other semantic disturbances.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Believe, Gambling, Giving

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.697, Institute of GS

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• If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our beliefs- we cannot adjust ourselves to actual conditions, and so fall into many avoidable semantic difficulties. But the so-called normal person practically never abides by his beliefs, and when his beliefs are building for him a fictitious world, he saves his neck by not abiding by them. A so-called "insane" person acts upon his beliefs, and so cannot adjust himself to a world which is quite different from his fancy.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Fall, Insane Person, Abiding

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.87, Institute of GS

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• Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude: it can only say, "This model"- or theory, or interpretation of the data- "fits more of the facts known at this date than any rival model." We can never know if the model will fit the facts that might come to light in the next millennium or even in the next week.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Light, Next Week, Data

  Robert Anton Wilson (2002). “Tsog: The Thing That Ate the Constitution”

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• Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and dogmatic denial very childish forms of conceit in a world of infinitely whirling complexity. None of us can see enough from one corner of space-time to know "all" about the rest of space-time.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Book, Space, Denial

  Robert Anton Wilson (2002). “Tsog: The Thing That Ate the Constitution”

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• The Principle of Tolerance, fixed once for all the realization that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very time when this was being worked out, there should rise, under Hitler in Germany and other tyrants elsewhere, a counter-conception: a principle of monstrous certainty. When the future looks back on the 1930's, it will think of them as a crucial confrontation of culture as I have been expounding it - the ascent of man against the throwback to the despots' belief that they have absolute certainty.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Men, Thinking, Tyrants

  "The Ascent of Man" (Episode 11: "Knowledge or Certainty"), 1973.

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• Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Teacher, Generations, Lessons

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.163, Princeton University Press

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• 'Believing' cannot tip the scales in making a historical judgement about whether something really happened. I can choose to believe that George Washington threw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock, but my believing that he did it has nothing to do with whether or not he really did do it. So also with the story of Jesus walking on water: Believing that he did it has nothing to do with whether he really did do it. 'Belief' cannot be the basis for historical conclusions; it has no direct relevance.

  Marcus Borg

  Jesus, Believe, Water

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• Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

  Richard Dawkins

  Definitions, Belief, Reason

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• There's no point of having faith if you have evidence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Belief, Evidence, No Point

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• The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this planet.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Persistence, Humanity, Faces

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• Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done by a nonbeliever. And here is my second challenge. Can any reader think of a wicked statement made, or an evil action performed, precisely because of religious faith? The second question is easy to answer, is it not? The first - I have been asking it for some time - awaits a convincing reply. By what right, then, do the faithful assume this irritating mantle of righteousness? They have as much to apologize for as to explain.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Thinking, Names

  "An Atheist Responds" by Christopher Hitchens, www.washingtonpost.com. July 14, 2007.

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• Faith is not the result of fuzy thinking. It is the cause of it.

  Dan Barker

  Thinking, Causes, Belief

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• Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

  E. O. Wilson

  Lds, Religion, Belief

  "Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge". Book by E. O. Wilson, p. 256, 1998.

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• It's not easy to change world views. Faith has its own momentum and belief is comfortable. To restructure reality is traumatic and scary. That is why many intelligent people continue to believe: unbelief is an unknown.

  Dan Barker

  Believe, Intelligent, Reality

  Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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• It does require maturity to realize that models are to be used, but not to be believed.

  Henri Theil

  Maturity, Doe, Belief

  Henri Theil (1971). “Principles of Econometrics”, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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• The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Believe, Knowing, People

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• To use the term blind faith, is to use an adjective needlessly.

  Julian Ruck

  Adjectives, Use, Belief

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• The one experience that I hope every student has at some point in their lives is to have some belief you profoundly, deeply hold, proved to be wrong because that is the most eye-opening experience you can have, and as a scientist, to me, is the most exciting experience I can ever have.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Hope, Eye, Science

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