“It's this human porosity that bothers me and that I can't escape since it is the faith of my skin, the extra… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
“Our belief in a world external to ourselves, filled with things and people that are not us, is an overwhelming fact of… — James M. Corrigan Copy Share Image
“Those who do not carry within them the soul of everything the world can show them, will do well to watch it:… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“Imagine a land where people are afraid of dragons. It is a reasonable fear: dragons possess a number of qualities that make… — David Whiteland Copy Share Image
“Mom." I couldn't believe she was doing this again. She was taking this moment, this time when I was strongest, away from… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. The Party intellectual knows… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Almost every book in the NT has something to say about false beliefs and those who advocate them. We are warned, e.g.,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Thus it often is with us, we take a course, and we keep to it, as if we were infallible, and we… — G.A. Henty Copy Share Image
“Never discount another man's faith just because it is dressed in another language foreign to your own. Language can be used as… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Then in a moment, in that vast space of rocks and sky and scorching sun, I understood that he had not meant… — Paul Torday Copy Share Image
“If you don't make a conscious effort to visualize, who you are and what you want to become in life, then you… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Killing, raping and looting have been common practices in religious societies, and often carried out with clerical sanction. The catalogue of notorious… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
“I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Belief is ever its own tempter to believe differently. You cannot believe freedom into existence, but can you free yourself from belief… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time all the men of mind and genius in the world became of one belief—that is to say, of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“To those who in their turn selectively handle Mormon history and discourage our probing it in a number of areas, one needs… — Thomas F. Rogers Copy Share Image
“What we have to grasp, then, is that the bad conscience of the natural man is not at all the same thing… — J.I. Packer Copy Share Image
“The cruciform does not like pain. Nor do I but, like the cruciform, I am willing to use it to serve my… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“His tone was odd, a mixture of restraint and subtle conviction. He did not make light of the question, nor did he… — Jennifer Roberson Copy Share Image
“There are some who are still weak in faith, who ought to be instructed, and who would gladly believe as we do.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“The secret of enlightenment is the absolute, unequivocal conviction that it exists. What does that mean? It means you have discovered an… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
“I’m an old man trying to give a young daughter advice, and it’s like a monkey trying to teach table manners to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In the final analysis, the question of why bad things happen to good people translates itself into some very different questions, no… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
“He found it impossible to believe that a world so full of evil was the work of an Author combining infinite power… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I suspect that self-deception is similar to its cousins, overconfidence and optimism, and as with these other biases, it has both benefits… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“Once I was asked be a seatmate on a trans-Pacific flight....what instruction he should give his fifteen-year-old daughters, who wanted to be… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“No parent should have to bury a child ... No mother should have to bury a son. Mothers are not meant to… — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
“answer. Donald’s dysfunctional belief was related to Janine’s, but he’d held on to it for much longer—a life of responsible and successful… — Bill Burnett Copy Share Image
“As it says in 1 Peter 3:1-6: Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
“Asymmetries in hedonic and instrumental consequences can also lead to the formation and maintenance of beliefs that can have more serious consequences,… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“Do not believe those who try to persuade you that composition is only a cold exercise of the intellect. The only music… — Tchaikovsky & Newmarch Copy Share Image
“In depression this faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“16 Through the Eyes of a Child Jesus called for the children and said to the disciples, “Let the children come to… — Cheri Fuller Copy Share Image
“Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Stand firm in the faith The next charge is to stand firm. A common theme of leadership is the need to be… — Randy Stinson Copy Share Image
“Language as putative science. - The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We believe in the wrong things. That's what frustrates me the most . Not the lack of belief, but the belief in… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“All Kellhus could see of his father were two fingers and a thumb lying slack upon a bare thigh. The thumbnail gleamed.… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“Believing can mean something a good deal less than certainty. I believe the bus will come in five minutes, but I can’t… — John Webster Copy Share Image