belief in god

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monotheism

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is simply to surrender to ignorance and call it God.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. Isaac Asimov (1983)

is, when absent of love, fear, passion, anguish, doubt or despair, not in fact belief in him, but belief in those who have taught them that God exist. They believe only in the God-idea.

Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exist. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God. Miguel de Unamuno

is to firmly believing in something one has not actually seen . . . like our feet.

is, for the Englishman, a proposition whereby, while some people say there is a God and others say there is no God, for him the truth lies somewhere in between.

is not necessary. Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

is a good delusion --- If we err in our belief that the souls of men are immortal, we err gladly, and would not wish to lose so delightful an error.

If I err in my belief that the souls of men are immortal, I err gladly, and do not wish to lose so delightful an error.

is a convenience --- and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

is to yearn for His existence, and furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.

To believe in God is. to yearn for His existence, and furthermore, it is to act as if He did ist.

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