Faith Quotes

"Faith today must coexist with doubt in ways that earlier certainties did not require."

"Trust is the extension of faith into the social realm."

"Society is held together by our collective agreement to maintain comfortable illusions."

"Trust in society rests on the assumption that people will maintain their performances."

"The calling demands total commitment."

"The Protestant work ethic transformed Western civilization."

"The calling is both gift and burden."

"The calling demands sacrifice of personal comfort."

"Religion is the form in which humans transcend their individual existence."

"The search for meaning is what makes us human."

"Religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices."

"The sacred and profane are the fundamental categories of religious thought."

"Religion creates and maintains social cohesion."

"The sacred emerges from collective effervescence."

"The sacred unites people through shared reverence."

"Social life depends on people being willing to suspend disbelief"

"The expert systems we rely on daily are built on faith as much as empirical knowledge."

"The expert systems we depend on are never fully transparent, which creates a particular kind of vulnerability."

"Trust in modern institutions is conditional and can be withdrawn if they fail to justify themselves rationally."

"Religion shapes economics more than economics shapes religion."

"The religious impulse survives secularization in new forms."

"Faith is the acceptance of contradiction at a higher level of consciousness."

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean."

"Faith is the conviction of things unseen."

"Religion is the unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things."

"The sacred and the profane are fundamental categories through which we organize experience."

"Society transcends the individual, yet the individual participates in the sacred through society."

"The sacred is anything set apart and forbidden, whether religious or secular."

"The sacred and secular are not opposed; secular institutions can be sacred to society."

"The persistence of religion demonstrates that humans need the sacred in their lives."