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Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#secularism #faith

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#faith

Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, we when are impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is best - better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than his. Either way, we are questioning the reality of God's omnicience. ↗

— Neil A. Maxwell

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If my God damns people for love but saves them for brutle warfare, then that is not the God I know or wish to worship. ↗

— Cristina Marrero

#glbt #god #lesbian #love #personal-faith

Faith UP! Your purpose is GREATER than all your PROBLEMS. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#central-christian #church #inspirational #john-paul #john-paul-warren

Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#nationalism #religion #faith

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe… ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#faith #faith

Hope and faith goes hand-in-hand, because without hope there is no faith. The same goes with want and needs, without any wants, there no need to have a need ↗

— Temitope Owosela

#faith #hope #needs #success #wants

God uses some of the worst times to do great things. ↗

— Molly Evangeline

#molly-evangeline #faith

Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it. ↗

— John Dewey

#science-vs-religion #faith