Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
“We state and commend the faith only in so far as we go out and put ourselves inside the doubts of the… — John R.W. Stott Copy Share Image
“Faith does not minimize our suffering. Faith does not say, “It’s no big deal.” Faith does not pretend that a situation is… — Matthew C. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Thus Milton refines the question down to a matter of faith," said Coleridge, bringing the lecture to a close, "and a kind… — Tim Powers Copy Share Image
But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Faith is not a light which scatters all our darkness, but a lamp which guides our steps in the night and suffices… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Words saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith, and intuition are like highly explosive vibration bombs, which, when set off, shatter the rocks of… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“That’s life. It’s a series of knock-down, drag-out fights with yourself and others that will leave you lying on the ground bruised… — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively… — Aaron Schock Copy Share Image
Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes.… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It starts with a dream.Add faith,it becomes belief, add action to belief it becomes a part of life,add preservance to part of… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Through God's grace we become those who believe and love. But in faith and love we who were once possessors become beings… — Eberhard Jungel Copy Share Image
There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
I was raised within a belief system that taught me the world was fixed, predestined to evolve along a certain path. My… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
A real relationship has fights. has trust. has faith. has tears. has hurt. has sweet tears. has genuine laughter. has snorts because… — Rach Purdue Copy Share Image
It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“This did not have to be the case, because the faith was, from its very beginnings, greater, broader, and deeper. Even today… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“There is moksha (ultimate liberation) for the one who goes outside the moha (infatuation due to illusion). Moha is a vikalp (belief… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“.:Sometimes we rely on people, our finances, and resources too much that the minute they stop working for us, it seems like… — Rafael Garcia Copy Share Image
Yes, I believe in equality. But I don't like the word 'feminist,' because it's such a rational belief to think that women… — Michael Che Copy Share Image
“Next to this central belief which,while I was reading, would be constantly reaching out from my inner self to the outer world,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I studied law before I became a filmmaker, and I actually have a great belief in the justice system and the rule… — Nick Broomfield Copy Share Image
Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“As for us, we who do not believe what these women believe, but live like them by faith, never could look without… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
My mom's disease, Hodgkin's disease, wiped us out financially. We eventually lost our businesses. I understand we're all one car wreck from… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
Field offices are evaluated in part based on their success in following through on leads and making cases that result in arrests… — Asha Rangappa Copy Share Image
“...if vision is restricted to a belief system, or if it is divorced from all belief systems, it ceases to be vision.… — James P. Carse Copy Share Image
“...the student of prehistoric man...cannot reject [the Castenedolo skull] as false without doing injury to his sense of truth, and he cannot… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
“I realised one day not so long ago, that I believe in many things, but that I do not trust any of… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day. Rooted deeply in our Judeo-Christian… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“If God says 'This is the way you should live your life' then this is the way we should live our lives.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
To have faith in Christ means more than simply despising the delights of this life. It means we should bear all our… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't… — Patricia Heaton Copy Share Image
“...symptoms: an unreasonable belief that everyone around him was crazy, a homicidal impulse to machine-gun strangers, retrospective falsification, an unfounded suspicion that… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Louie found himself thinking of the moment at which he had woken in the sinking hull of Green Hornet, the wires that… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Fascism was born to inspire a faith not of the Right (which at bottom aspires to conserve everything, even injustice) or of… — Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera Copy Share Image