“Churches provide a place of gathering for people who share common beliefs, support and encouragement for each other in faith, a place to find insight into and teaching about God's Word, and they provide a time and place where people can leave the world behind and focus only on their spiritual relationship with God.” PeopleWorldGodChristianSpiritualBeliefChurchReligiousCommonBehindsSupportFocusShareTeachingEncouragementInsightGatheringRelationship With GodSupport And EncouragementSpiritual Relationship Author:Mary C. Neal
“Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God.” IfsBeliefNatureStudyInsightDeismGod And Nature Author:Bruce H. Lipton
“And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility was simply to know the season, and match my actions and inactions to it. It was to learn the slow hard discipline of waiting. It was my season to believe in spite of-to believe in the absence of evidence or emotion, when there's nothing, no bud, no color, no light, no birdsong, to validate belief. It was my time to walk without sight.” KnowsBelieveEndsHardLightActionBeliefWaitingMy OwnWalksEmotionResponsibilityColorDisciplineEvidenceSeasonsSightWinterInsightAbsenceMy TimeSpiteInactionBudBirdsong Author:Mark Buchanan
“The opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent reason confirms or confutes; but the confirmation, where it is possible, consists, in the last analysis, of agreement with other beliefs no less instinctive. Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.” FirstsReasonLastsBeliefForceCreativeInstinctInsightIntuitionAnalysisRealmsOppositionAgreementLogicalConfirmationIllusoryInstinct Intuition Book:Mysticism and Logic, and Other Essays Source: Mysticism and Logic, and Other Essays
“If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.” IfsTryingBelieveBeliefWishChristianityRewardsInsightAssured Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Millions of mutual-fund investors sleep well at night, serene in the belief that superior outcomes result from pooling funds with like-minded investors and engaging high-quality investment managers to provide professional insight. The conventional wisdom ends up hopelessly unwise, as evidence shows an overwhelming rate of failure by mutual funds to deliver on promises.” WellsEndsShowsNightBeliefSleepResultsQualityMillionsPromiseEvidenceInvestmentRateInvestingInsightSuperiorsManagersOutcomesFundMutualOverwhelmingInvestorsConventionalEngagingSereneHigh QualityConventional WisdomUnwiseMutual FundSleep Well Author:David F. Swensen
“Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process” SelfSeemsBeliefProcessDiscoveryInsightConversionSelf DiscoveryMotiveSelf Efficacy Book:Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory
“Stupid people like to delude themselves that while they may not be clever, they were at least able to compensate with feelings and insights denied to the intellectual....It was precisely this kind of false belief that made stupid people so stupid. The truth was the clever people had infinitely more resources from which to make the leaps of connection that the world called intuition. What was 'intelligence' after all, but the ability to read into things?” PeopleWorldKindMayMadeFeelingsAbleBeliefAbilityStupidIntellectualResourcesConnectionsInsightIntuitionCleverLeapDeniedStupid People Author:Stephen Fry