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“Faith is a belief in things that your senses have not experienced and your mind does not understand, but you have touched them in other ways and have accepted them. It is easy for one to speak of faith; it is another thing to live it.”

Way Mind Doe Faith Belief Speak Easy Accepted Senses Touched

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Until the content of a belief is made clear, the appeal to accept the belief on faith is beside the point, for one would not know what one has accepted. The request for the meaning of a religious belief is logically prior to the question of accepting that belief on faith or to the question of whether that belief constitutes knowledge.”

Knows Made Belief Religious Accepting Clear Atheism Positive Atheism Accepted Appeals Request Religious Belief

Author:William Blackstone

“Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness.”

Belief Atheism Madness Positive Atheism Accepted Righteous Trifles Heretic Persecuted Irritated Obstinacy Deviation

Author:Lev Shestov

“Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person who has, to a greater or less degree, such a direct experience -- one whose religion and life are centered, not merely on an accepted belief or practice, but on that which the person regards as first hand personal knowledge.”

Firsts Persons Hands Belief Practice Greater Degrees Direct Regard Historical Definitions Intuition Accepted Psychological Mysticism Mystic Personal Knowledge

Author:Evelyn Underhill

“If it is finally accepted that the personality in whole or part survives death - and I believe that it will be - then such a belief will be considered as modern as a belief in spaceships and rockets.”

Ifs Believe Whole Belief I Believe Modern Personality Accepted Afterlife Rockets Spaceships

Book:ESP Power

Source: ESP Power

“The orthodox environmental theories [of heredity] have been accepted not because they have stood up under proper scientific investigations, but because they harmonize so well with our democratic belief in human equality.”

Humans Wells Has Beens Belief Theory Democratic Environmental Accepted Orthodox Investigation Stood Up Heredity Human Equality

Author:Arthur Jensen

“As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and are accepted as gentlemen, it will be impossible to think of the South as civilized...The educated folk of the Old South took theology lightly, and religion to them was hardly more than a charming ritual, useful on solemn occassions.”

Thinking Long Belief Impossible Students College South Folks Accepted Theology Educated Gentleman Civilized Ritual Southern Superstitions Charming Revival Solemn Campus Ymca

Author:H. L. Mencken

“If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.”

Ifs Believe Play Seems Games Belief Forget Accepted Never Forget Superstitions Theological Make Believe

Book:Texts & pretexts: an anthology with commentaries

Source: Texts & pretexts: an anthology with commentaries

“Evangelicals have like millions of rules. And it's just, uh, we have sort of an accepted, rationalism within which we frame religion. And we think that belief, intellectually, is of the same as relationship. And in our Western family conversation, that's become an incredible impediment toward actual wholeness, where the heart and the head are aligned and relationship -- with not just God but with each other.”

Thinking Heart Belief Millions Conversation Western Incredibles Accepted Wholeness Rationalism Impediments

Author:William P. Young

“I profess no belief in God, which by definition is true, especially if we take the accepted definition of God. But to be an atheist is to also have a belief, and have a system, and I don't know that I like that either.”

Ifs Knows Belief Atheist Definitions Accepted Belief In God

Author:George Carlin

“Throughout history, humankind has been resistant to change and to the acceptance of new ideas... When Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter, the astronomers of that time refused to accept or even to look at these satellites because the existence of these moons conflicted with their accepted beliefs. So it is now with psychiatrists and other therapists, who refuse to examine and evaluate the considerable evidence being gathered about survival after bodily death and about past life memories. Their eyes are tightly shut.”

“Skepticism is essential to the quest for knowledge, for it is in the seedbed of puzzlement that genuine inquiry takes root. Without skepticism, we may remain mired in unexamined belief systems that are accepted as sacrosanct yet have no factual basis in reality.”

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Book:Skepticism and Humanism: The New Paradigm

Source: Skepticism and Humanism: The New Paradigm