Quotes about Beliefs

A truly free society protects all faiths, and true faith protects a free society.

Our ethics are not meant to be created in our childhoods and shoved in a box somewhere; they must be reshaped daily, as we encounter scenarios that challenge our beliefs.

Humility is the power to admit that you may be wrong. Admitting to false beliefs is not weakness, it is the first step on the path to truth. And make no mistake, there is no such thing as individual truth, only individual perception. Perception is subjective, but truth isn't.

I'm looking for a second reformation. The first reformation of the church 500 years ago was about beliefs. This one is going to be about behavior. The first one was about creeds. This one is going to be about deeds. It is not going to be about what does the church believe, but about what is the church doing.

But in reading all of the passages in which Jesus uses the word hell, what is so striking is that people believing the right or wrong things isn't his point. He's often not talking about beliefs as we think of them--he's talking about anger and lust and indifference. He's talking about the state of his listeners' hearts, about how they conduct themselves, how they interact with their neighbors, about the kind of effect they have on the world.

everybody is resting on a set of interpretations, and we need to be honest about it.

Sometimes we've accepted rules and codes and limits without realizing it.

The writers of the scriptures consistently affirm that we're all part of the same family. What we have in common—regardless of our tribe, language, customs, beliefs, or religion—outweighs our differences.

What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.