Lobsang Tenzin Quotes

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

I'm not an evangelist Christian at all. I can't try to convert anybody. It's not in me to do that. But my faith has given me such an appreciation of people and meaningful relationships, and a world view which I didn't have before. And although I will fail every day, it gives me something to aspire to.

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.

I don't think my spirituality has affected my character. I feel like my character is much more cynical about his beliefs, and I think I have to kind of drop what I believe in order to play him.

I think 'Charming Billy' ultimately is a novel about faith and what we believe in and, above all, what we choose to believe in.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

I connected to this idea of faith and spirituality and religion and Christianity being a very strong crux of who I am at the core and how a lot of what we think and believe is based around our spiritual beliefs.

We all have fundamental beliefs of one sort or another, and it is very threatening if somebody is saying they're wrong.

I wouldn't be where I am without my faith.

Faith embraces itself and the doubt about itself.

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds.

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.