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“If you believe in something, then you shouldn’t give up on it.”
“There are those who don’t believe in God and yet do good. There are those who believe in God and kill for that belief; those who prepare for war because they claim they want peace, and so on. So on...”
“I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really live only when I feel him and seek Him”
“True love is like ghosts which many believe in, but few have seen.”
“Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.”
“I believed it had been long enough that Kresimir would never return. I believed it was time for change. I thought all of Rozalia’s concerns were foolish, and that Julene was living in the past. I b...”
“A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.”
“That’s life. It’s a series of knock-down, drag-out fights with yourself and others that will leave you lying on the ground bruised and bloody and drooling all over your shag carpeting. But all that...”
“Sometimes the greatest thing we can ask ourselves is “Why not me?” Anyone who has ever accomplished anything worth while has either verbalized or internalized this question. The beauty of the answe...”
“Rigid traditions capture soulsprisons of spiritual thoughtman’s religion has captured a god grown too small and very weak.”
“Why do some persons 'find' God in a way that others do not? Why does God manifest His Presence to some and let multitudes of others struggle along in the half-light of imperfect Christian experienc...”
“In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.”
“I think that everyone has something that they will kill for.”
“Have you got something against faith?”“Have you got something against reason?”
“Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.”
“Most people’s religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe.”
“Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure.”
“God is one and there is but one God — all else is but the way the ignorant seek to put Gods into a form they can understand...”
“The fact that it is sometimes difficult for me to believe in God doesn't mean that I deny his existence. If I stopped believing in him, I wouldn't be able to continue living.”
“People believe in something, they themselves don’t know what it is, it isn’t a good thing, but it stands for a good thing. Because all belief stands for something that’s better. All belief comes fr...”
