"An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason."

-- Jon Meacham

#Rejection Quotes #Mind Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.”

Source : Margot Asquith (1934). “More Or Less about Myself”
“I just love bikes. It's not the safest passion to have, but I guess it's better than Russian roulette.”
“We are the only country in the world that trashes its old buildings. Too late we realize how very much we need them.”
“The great successes of the modern environmental movement in the '60s and '70s had laid the seeds of their failure in the early years of the 21st Century. They had built institutions filled with lawyers and scientists well suited to lobby policy makers who basically shared their world view. This worked well when liberals controlled the Congress and much of the federal bureaucracy, and when the politics of the time were more supportive of active government efforts to regulate the economy and clean up the environment.”
“life's best balm - Forgetfulness!”
“Jesus did not die for pastors to have a well paid job. Neither was He raised on the cross just to raise our standard of living. He died to seek and to save those who are lost.”
“I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.”
“The earth itself is their church; the vast, open sky its ceiling.”

Source : Wayne Teasdale (2010). “The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions”, p.185, New World Library

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