Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
Second, if you disbelieve in the reality of good and evil spirit agents, you fundamentally change the narrative of Scripture. The motif… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
Rich people believe "You can have your cake and eat it too." Middle-class people believe "Cake is too rich, so I'll only… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
Natural disasters like Hurricane Harvey are the worst kind of crises for people like Mr. Trump and Mr. Osteen, who purvey their… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
... it has always been the depth of my belief, my faith, or my love that was the mainspring of my behavior.… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world;… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is a brotherliness about a drinking person, which is coldly lacking in the straight and narrow enemies of drink; the difference… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
I pledge to invest in women because I believe it offers one of the greatest returns on investment. I am committed to… — Sara Blakely Copy Share Image
There have, for years, been comparative studies of religious fanaticism and factors that correlate with it. By and large, it tends to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
The same means that have supported every other popular belief have supported Christianity. War, imprisonment, and falsehood; deeds of unexampled and incomparable… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
This stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute,… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
“belief, by its very nature, is exclusive. If The earth is more than four billion years old is true, then the claim,… — David Werther Copy Share Image
In Islamic belief, knowledge is two-fold. There is that revealed through the Holy Prophet (s.a.s.) and that which man discovers by virtue… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
People would find in shows, news, documentaries and many more about things such as aliens, ghosts, time travel and secrets. In television… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
“Buddhism is not a belief system. It’s not about accepting certain tenets or believing a set of claims or principles. In fact,… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
Setting skepticism aside, even briefly, can make for very interesting explorations. It is not necessary that we change any of our beliefs.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Techno-optimism is a belief in the power of technology to extend our sphere of possibilities and, ultimately, a belief that technology helps… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“It's about people who still are unaware. Therefore they strive to live by all means: love like no one before them loved,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just so that we are clear on this, I am in favour of teaching children about different beliefs. I am not in… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
[The Christmas story] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The universal Law of Attraction states that we draw to us those people, events, and circumstances that match our inner state of… — Arielle Ford Copy Share Image
I grew up with adults who believed the Virgin Mary was appearing in Medjugorje, Yugoslavia. They held prayer meetings where they closed… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Christianity has been successfully attacked and marginalized… because those who professed belief were unable to defend the faith from attack, even though… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
What was once a tiny seed of belief for me has grown into the tree of life, so if your faith is… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
I need to tell the things that are important but which don't make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one. There is great wisdom in this... but… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I am not a strict constructionalist, believing that we seal our eternal progress by what we do here. It is my belief… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for… — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
“If we are to believe he is really alive with all that that implies, then we have to believe without proof. And… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image