Patricia Briggs Quotes

In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

What do we believe? Why do we believe it?

in all the world there is not someone who does not believe something.

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

I wouldn't like to be a non-believer in anything.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

In matters of religion it is very easy to deceive a man, and very hard to undeceive him.

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

I just believe what I believe.

[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.

Faith: The opposite of dogmatism.

Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.

I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.

Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.

A fiery shield is God's Word; of more substance and purer than gold, which, tried in the fire, loses nought of its substance, but resists and overcomes all the fury of the fiery heat; even so, he that believes God's Word overcomes all, and remains secure everlastingly, against all misfortunes; for this shield fears nothing, neither hell nor the devil.

Belief is knowing what you believe. Conviction is knowing why you believe it.

Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.

Every thing to be true must become a religion.