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We can be fervent in our disagreements without being factitious with our beliefs.

Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

A lot of people don't give much thought to what they believe, and it's easy for them to hold what often are two conflicting ideas in their head at the same time.

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

Religious relativism is not the answer to disagreement between faiths; yet relativism, and a blurring of religious distinctions, all too often result when two deeply believing faith communities engage each other in the public arena on theological issues.

I tend not to argue about things that I don't believe in.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.