What woman, indeed, among the most faithful adherents of the truth, believes the promises and threats of the Word in the sense in which she believes in her own children, or would not throw her theology to the wind if weighed against their happiness?
Quotes about adherents (12 Quotes)
Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions. i. e. When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion.
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, I cannot accept them as credible explanations of reality and they are incredible to me in proportion to the degree that they require my belief in positive human attributes and intervenient powers in their divinities.
There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.
No matter how isolated, extreme and distant from the mainstream faith, when adherents of your faith - some sect that calls itself Muslim - carries out acts of terrorism in the name of Islamic extremism, then the spiritual head of that movement is fair gam
Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
These principles have now grown stale and even archaic. Environmentalism is a set of values, not the Ten Commandments. As a value system, it has to compete for adherents.
Hard-line Identity adherents believe that in order for Christ to return to Earth, the globe must be swept clean of satanic forces -- meaning Jews, homosexuals and a whole laundry list of other enemies.
I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.