Quotes About Belief

It's hard to stay away from religion when you mess with acid.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the people you need to concentrate on.

It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life,it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!

It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!

We all have tremendous potential, and we all are blessed with gifts. Yet, the one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt. It is not so much the lack of technical information that holds us back, but more the lack of self-confidence.

The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.

Excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

There are, in effect, two things: to know and to believe one knows. To know is science. To believe one knows is ignorance.

Jake Gittes: Do you accept people of the Jewish persuasion? Mr. Palmer: I'm sorry, we do not. Jake Gittes: Don't apologize - neither does Dad.

Nevertheless, family gods in general held their ground, as did rural gods, right up to the period when government became Christian. In the early fifth century, in his commentaries on Isaiah (57), St Jerome bears witness to what he saw in Rome several years before. Like Tertullian in his De idololatria, he deplores the fact that nowhere escaped paganism. No sooner had one crossed the threshold of a house than one saw the idols of the domestic Lares, 'as they say!

This double phenomenon - the influence of occult sciences and devotion to a particular deity - affected many Romans during the imperial era.

Marriage was so sacred that it couid not be celebrated on just any day or month of the year. May was ruled out, because it was the month of the old (maiores): 'Who marries then has not long to live' (Ov., F, 5, 488); the 9, 11 and 13 were in any case devoted to the dead. This prohibition was still observed not long ago in Provence. Also ruled out were the first fortnight of March (season of war: Ov., F, 3, 395) and June (before the 'purification' of Vesta's temple).

Cato warns people to be on their guard against every 'haruspex, augur, soothsayer and Chaldaean' (astrologer). Here we can recognise the old Roman who does not want to be hindered in his daily activities.

The Romans certainly asked their gods to look favourably upon them, but above all to reassure them in their plans and back them in their actions.

He had remained steadfast in agnosticism and therefore, as Mabel took comfort in remarking, 'he never denied God.' Neither did he affirm God.

Yau proposed another round, then asked: 'Is it true that to the west of the Khalif's domain there live white-skinned people, with blue eyes and yellow hair?' 'There can't be men like that!' Chiao Tai protested. 'Must be ghosts or devils!'(49)

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You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.

In poetry a certain faith in the impossible,…as in religion a like faith in the inscrutable, must have a place[;]

He's a trump!" said Clifford, "and if he swears the world is as good and pure as his own heart, I'll swear he's right.

Mais je croy que je Suis descendu on puiz Ténébreux onquel disoit Heraclytus estre Vereté cachée.

Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly.

He projects to the world, or to society at large, the feelings that he had for his family, but he is not aware of this projection…. He also feels that the world is going to be bad, and bad for him only. (Arieti, 1955, p. 68)

From my interaction with this man and my knowledge of Marilyn's childish manipulations, I knew that he had been provoked into accepting his wife's view of men and of himself as being angry and harsh. His boys were growing up to believe that because they were male, they, too, were mean and unfeeling.