“Michael doesn't flinch. 'You can't know,' he says quietly, 'how much you truly love something until it's gone.' 'That's not fair,' I… — T.J. Klune Copy Share Image
"Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs. To put our beliefs on… — Lisa Delpit Copy Share Image
I believe it is of particular importance in our day, when Satan is raging in the hearts of men in so many… — Quentin L. Cook Copy Share Image
In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall come nearer to… — Rosalind Franklin Copy Share Image
You pick up very well-known books on Lincoln [and] you will find almost no reference to his long-term belief in colonization. Why?… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The man who enters combat encased in solid armor plate, but lacking the essential of selfconfidence, is far more exposed and naked… — Robert S. Johnson Copy Share Image
I love to be in control of everything I do and everything around me. So that means, you give me a romantic… — Teddy Pendergrass Copy Share Image
In 1984, I gave a speech at Notre Dame titled 'Religious Belief and Public Morality.' I said that Catholic legislators will live… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
The people of Africa have learned the lessons of patience and endurance in their long struggle for freedom. In a cynical world… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“You have to believe that your voice can mean something. You have to believe that what you do matters. And you have… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“The Reich Chancellor undoubtedly lives in belief in God. He recognises Christianity as the builder of Western culture. { Comments by Archbishop… — Michael von Faulhaber Copy Share Image
As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
My strong belief - in being in blogging before Twitter - is that in trying to create more information out there, in… — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
I come from the belief that all good films find their time whether it's on opening week or sometime later. That's certainly… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
The laughter that happens when people are truth-telling and showing up and being real - I call that "knowing laughter." That's what… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and justifying their belief on an… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The world's theology is easy to define. It is the view that human beings are basically good, that no one is really… — James Montgomery Boice Copy Share Image
The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
We usually look outside ourselves for heroes and teachers. It has not occurred to most people that they may already be the… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a… — David J. Schwartz Copy Share Image
Memories shift like loose snow in a wind, or are a chorale of ghosts all talking over one another. There is only… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
It is ... a sign of the times-though our brothers of physics and chemistry may smile to hear me say so-that biology… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Again and again as president, Reagan let it slip that he concurred with fundamentalists' belief that the world would end in a… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
With a woman, a man always wants to let himself go. And it is precisely with a woman that he should never… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“If you do not believe in reincarnation then the word “prarabdh” (karma effect) should not be present in your vocabulary. Christian, Muslim,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
We recognize a tree by its fruit, and we ought to be able to recognize a Christian by his action. The fruit… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If whatever men know comes through their brain without the Holy Spirit regenerating their spirit, then their knowledge will help them not… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
So Republican candidates bash Obamacare and move up in the polls. Given that public opinion remains firmly against the health care law… — Byron York Copy Share Image
The fact is that astrological beliefs go back at least 2,500 years. Now that should be a sufficiently long time for astrologers… — Richard E. Berendzen Copy Share Image