#belief

Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can't see it. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#beliefs #church #family #friendships #honesty

Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to set aside, but those whom a person shares a sense of humor with are his closest friends. They are always there to make the biggest influence. ↗

— Criss Jami

#beliefs #best-friends #brain #daily #daily-life

I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#atheism #belief #fantasy #god #humility

People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#skepticism #intelligence

The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one’s beliefs. ↗

— Alister E. McGrath

#intelligence #intelligence

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#intelligence #stupidity #truth #intelligence

What each of us believes in is up to us, but life is impossible without believing in something. ↗

— Kentetsu Takamori

#buddhism #japan #religion #spirituality #life

The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us. ↗

— St. Thomas Aquinas

#god #joy #life #spirituality #life

There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don't have contingencies and conditions. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#life #life

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#belief #life #life