“Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.” GivingHeartChildrenChurchKnowingMy HeartBlessingConscienceCatholicSilentBottomBelieverCatholic ChurchChild Of GodNon Believer Author:Pope Francis
“What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone's being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are a believer? Virtually nothing, say psychologists, sociologists, and others who have studied that question for decade” KnowingCaringDecadesBelieverGenerousHelpfulPsychologistLikelihoodSociologists Author:Alfie Kohn
“..the real world's all we've got. Believers in the supernatural claim to have special wisdom about the world. But real wisdom means knowing truth from falsehood, knowing the difference between evidence and wishful thinking. Yes, the real world is mysterious and sometimes frightening. But would the supernatural make it better? The real world has beauty, poetry, love and the joy of honest discovery. Isn't that enough?” ThinkingWorldMeanRealSometimesEnoughJoyDifferencesKnowingSpecialHonestEvidenceDiscoveryClaimsBelieverMysteriousReal WorldFrighteningFalsehoodLove PoetryWishful ThinkingReal WisdomBeauty Poetry Author:John Stossel
“The great comfort in knowing that angels minister to believers in Christ is that God Himself sends them to us.” ChristKnowingComfortAngelBelieverMinisters Book:The Heaven Answer Book Source: The Heaven Answer Book
“Fervent religious believers sacrifice pleasures of the body, but instead enjoy pleasures of the mind, including the joy of knowing that those men who didn't follow their religion would be tortured for eternity.” MenMindBodyWould BeJoyEnjoyReligiousPleasureKnowingSacrificeEternityIncludingBelieverFervent Author:Bertrand Russell
“Lo! ye believers in gods all goodness, and in man all ill, lo you! see the omniscient gods oblivious of suffering man; and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.” MenDoeSufferingKnowingSweetGratitudeGoodnessIllBelieverIdioticObliviousLove And GratitudeOmniscientSweet Things Book:Moby-Dick: or, The Whale Source: Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
“It is possible to live the Christian life just on the surface, knowing only enough to carry on an intelligent conversation in the church foyer with another equally uninformed believer, but when that happens you are vulnerable to the attack of the deceiver.” EnoughHappensChristianChurchKnowingConversationIntelligentSurfaceBelieverChristian LifeVulnerableDeceiverUninformedFoyersIntelligent Conversation Author:David Jeremiah