Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart



Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart.

Joseph Fort Newton

Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

Frederick Buechner

For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

Augustine

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

The Dalai Lama

Hate the sin and love the sinner.

Mahatma Gandhi

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

St. Francis of Assisi

The essences of all religions speak of peace, compassion, justice and the interconnection of all life.

Ann Emerson

Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.

William Hiram Foulkes

I am a deeply religious non believer …This is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Albert Einstein

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

Sir Stephen Henry Roberts.

 

Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

Voltaire

 

The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

Thomas Paine

Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries.

George W. Truett

Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, 2:5

Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India.

Lyn Yutang

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Mahatma Gandhi

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Mahatma Gandhi

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

Mother Teresa

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

Fight in the cause of God against those who fight you, but do not transgress limits. God does not love transgressors.

Qur’an 2:190

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Buddha

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Buddha

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Buddha

God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.

Guru Nanak 

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

Guru Nanak

The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within.

Guru Gobind Singh

Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.

Pope John Paul II

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King Jr

God is consciousness that pervades the entire universe of the living and the non-living.

Ramakrishna

 

The Vedas compare creation to a spider's web that the spider creates and then lies within. God is both the container of the universe and what is contained in it.

Ramakrishna

If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going?

Justin Brown

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.

Benjamin Franklin

The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

“The man who has no imagination has no wings."

Muhammad Ali

"Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential."

Winston Churchill

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

Be the change you want to see in this world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Mahatma Gandhi

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Mahatma Gandhi

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zen philosopher

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

We must learn to live together as brothers

or perish together as fools.

Martin Luther King Jr.

We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King Jr

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Lao-tzu

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

Thomas Dewar

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

Mama always said life was like a box a chocolates, never know what you're gonna get.

- Forrest Gump

I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am.

Andrew Martin (from the film bicentennial man.)

“Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.”

Homer Simpson.

“I'm no theologian. I don't know who or what God is. All I know is he's more powerful than Mum and Dad put together.”

Lisa Simpson

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|An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” |

|[pic]  Mahatma Gandhi |

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|“God has no religion” |

|[pic]  Mahatma Gandhi |

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|Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed” |

|[pic]  Mahatma Gandhi |

|“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.” |

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|Mahatma Gandhi |

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|“Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it” |

|[pic]  Mahatma Gandhi |

|“All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such” |

|[pic]  Mahatma Gandhi |

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|“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” |

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|Mahatma Gandhi |

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|“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” |

|[pic]  Mahatma Gandhi |

|A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.” |

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|Mahatma Gandhi |

|Music can change the world because it can change people.” |

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|[pic]  Bono |

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|“Africa is bursting into flames while we all stand around with watering cans” |

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|Bono |

|“We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” |

|[pic]  Mother Teresa of Calcutta |

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|“Peace begins with a smile.” |

|[pic] Mother Teresa of Calcutta |

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| Lisa Simpson |

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