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			 As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as read more 
	 As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true. 
		
 
	
			 If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls read more 
	 If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers. 
		
 
	
			 A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.  
	 A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. 
		
 
	
			 In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and read more 
	 In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and exchange ideas that religious beliefs begin to be eroded. No one changes his beliefs without some instigation, some novel experience, some modification of the customary course of things, and in a closed society people believe what all their fellows obviously believe. Only when they are brought into contact with persons whom they respect holding different views do they begin to look at their inherited beliefs critically. 
		
 
	
			 I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and read more 
	 I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. 
		
 
	
			 Faith is not contrary to reason….  
	 Faith is not contrary to reason…. 
		
 
	
			 Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you read more 
	 Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know. 
		
 
	
			 I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the read more 
	 I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. 
		
 
	
			 I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.  
	 I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.