intellectual belief Quotes

Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

My sympathies are Left. On paper and in the soul. But not in my heart or my guts.

Evangelicals have like millions of rules. And it's just, uh, we have sort of an accepted, rationalism within which we frame religion. And we think that belief, intellectually, is of the same as relationship. And in our Western family conversation, that's become an incredible impediment toward actual wholeness, where the heart and the head are aligned and relationship -- with not just God but with each other.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

There is a vast difference between intellectual belief and the total conversion that saves the soul.

There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.

Now, the topic of religion seems much more complex, and I have a more complex relationship with it myself because I love religious music. I often find myself wanting to be in a religious state of mind even though I don't intellectually believe it. I want to go to that place emotionally. So it doesn't feel like something that I really want to debunk in that way. It's just not where my interests lie at the moment.