#belief

Your life is your statement to the world representing your values, your beliefs, your dreams. ↗

— David Arenson

#dreams #life #values #world #dreams

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#education #enlighten #evidence #ignorance #knowledge

What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. ↗

— Thomas Henry Huxley

#faith #religion #science #skepticism #faith

Master Palaemon's hand, dry and wrinkled as a mummy's, groped until it found mine. "Among the initiates of religion it is said, 'You are an epopt always.' The reference is not only to knowledge but to their chrism, whose mark, being invisible, is ineradicable. You know our chrism." I nodded again. "Less even than theirs can it be washed away. Should you leave now, men will only say, 'He was nurtured by the torturers.' But when you have been anointed they will say, 'He is a torturer.' You may follow the plow or the drum, but still you will hear, 'He is a torturer.' Do you understand that? ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#education #past #education

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more? ↗

— Carl Sagan

#biology #philosophy #philosophy-of-life #religion #science

If I told you to wish for good health, you would think I'm ridiculous; but when I exchange the word "wish" for the word "pray", you believe it can work. That is the disempowering delusion religions have brought us. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#delusion #health #pray #religion #wish

But if he had come down from the Cross, he would have made it impossible for them to believe in him, for he would have substituted sight for faith. That is why he does not take us down from our crosses: so that we do not substitute feelings and experiences for faith. He wants the very best for us, the strongest and most precious gift, and that is faith. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#cross #faith #gift #suffering #experience

Doubt everything. Find your own light. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#doubt #faith #faith

Even now, there are still days so beautiful, I almost believe in God. (132) ↗

— Ann Hood

#atheism #beauty #belief #faith #god

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together. ↗

— Bob Riley

#beliefs #binds #cherishing #differences #focused