“The Episcopalians don't demand much in the way of actual religious belief. They have girl priests, gay priests, gay bishops, gay marriages? it's much like the New York Times editorial board. They acknowledge the Ten Commandments? or "Moses' talking points"? but hasten to add that they're not exactly "carved in stone."” WayGirlBeliefReligiousTalkingNew YorkGayTenDemandStonesAddAcknowledgeBoardsPriestsCommandmentsGay MarriageMosesNew York TimesBishopsReligious BeliefEditorialsTen Commandments Book:How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter Source: How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter
“Brother, you can believe in stones, as long as you don't throw them at me. You are free to worship whoever you want, but other people's beliefs are not your concern, whether they believe that the Messiah is God, son of Mary, or that Satan is God, son of Mary. Let people have their beliefs.” PeopleWantBelieveLongBeliefSonBrotherWorshipConcernStonesSatanMaryMessiah Author:Wafa Sultan
“Just as ripples radiate from the place where a stone is thrown into a pool of water, our sometime-unconscious thoughts, feelings, emotions, and beliefs create the “disturbances” in the field that become the blueprints for our lives.” FeelingsBeliefWaterEmotionOur LivesFieldsStonesUnconsciousThrownPoolRippleDisturbanceBlueprintsUnconscious Thoughts Author:Gregg Braden
“It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other hand, abstract belief is largely impossible; it is the concrete, the actuality of the cup, the candle, the sacrificial stone, which hardens belief; the statue is nothing until it cries, the philosophy is nothing until the philosopher is martyred.” MatterPhilosophyHandsMightBeliefImpossibleCryStonesPhilosopherCupsAbstractCandleConcreteStatuesExoticActualityMartyred Author:Shirley Jackson
“There's a belief that wherever your Ancestors took shape from the sticks and stones that formed them, that's home. Ancestors from the coast leave their mark, Ancestors from the mountains, from the desert, they all leave their mark on the genes. When you come home, the genes rejoice.” HomeBeliefShapesMountainStonesRootsMarkSticksDesertComing HomeRejoiceAncestorGenesCoastSticks And Stones Book:No Defense Source: No Defense
“I love it [music]. I always have loved it. There's something about playing music that inspires me. When I've had some really down periods in my life, debauched beyond belief, not knowing what the hell I'm gonna do with my life, [Rolling Stones'] "Street Fighting Man" or something like that would come on the radio, and I'm pounding the dash and the rock and roll will inspire me to keep going. It inspires me. It's true.” MenFightingBeliefHellKnowingStreetsRocksInspirePeriodsStonesRadioKeep GoingNot KnowingRollingRock And RollPlaying MusicRolling Stones Author:Creed Bratton
“We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.” AgeBeliefEmotionTechnologyStonesCombinationBizarreMedievalStone Age Author:E. O. Wilson
“Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire has been ethically ambiguous. If you want to reason about faith, and offer a reasoned (and reason responsive) defense of faith as an extra category of belief worthy of special consideration, I'm eager to play. I certainly grant the existence of the phenomenon of faith; what I want to see is a reasoned ground for taking faith seriously as a way of getting to the truth , and not, say, just as a way people comfort themselves and each other” PeopleIfsWayWantHumansHas BeensReasonPlayBeliefExistenceFireSpecialComfortOffersMajorsToolsStonesSpeciesWorthyDefenseInventionExtrasConsiderationGrantsPhenomenonCategoriesTechnologicalAmbiguousHuman Species Author:Daniel Dennett