God, I don?t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.
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The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word "but" which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative -- before they tell you.
Thus: "I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but ... " (a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut).
Thus: "I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but ... " (a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut).
The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.
No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
If the belief [in Christianity] did not make us happy, it would not be believed: how little it must then be worth!
I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they are forced or feel forced to change a belief or circumstance which they hold dear. I found what I believe is the answer when I read that a Canadian neurosurgeon discovered some truths about the human mind which revealed the intensity of this problem. He conducted some experiments which proved that when a person is forced to change a basic belief or viewpoint, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations equivalent to the most agonizing torture.
Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.
[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them.
The Godless would deny and destroy human rights .... the liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is abandoned.
The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions.
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded...
Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another.
Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.
With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.
The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience.
It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.
The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.
Belief is the death of intelligence.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing.
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them.
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news
There is danger in both belief and unbelief.
Blind belief is dangerous.
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.
Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?
Many people have died for their beliefs? The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
My belief is that to have no wants is divine.
The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - and on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - and we will neglect it at our peril.
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Mi taku oyasin. (We are all related.)
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.