Quotes About Belief

Altogether I've seen enough change to have faith that more will come.

When teachers of randomly selected students are told their students are slow, they become slower; when teachers believe their students are gifted, they become more gifted.

Try to stay away from places where you're not allowed to laugh, including religious ones. The absence of laughter is a giveaway that the religion in question is more political than spiritual, more about a hierarchy with God at the top than about godliness in all living things.

People nod at the idea that when God is depicted inly as a white man, only white men seem godly. They laugh at the idea that priests dressed in skirts try to trump women's birth-giving power by baptising with imitation birth fluid, calling us reborn, and going women one better by promising everlasting life.

YOU CANNOT THINK YOURSELF INTO RIGHT LIVING. YOU LIVE YOURSELF INTO RIGHT THINKING. —NATIVE ELDERS IV.

Both white and black women were more likely than their male counterparts to support Hillary Clinton—and in my observation, also more likely to believe that she couldn't win. Male and female black voters were more likely than white voters to support Obama and also to believe he couldn't win. Each group was made pessimistic by the depth of the bias they had experienced.

began to see that for some, religion was just a form of politics you couldn't criticize.

the central concept of self-esteem – the belief that each person counts and can make a difference

Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines.

Have great, secret, big, fat hopes for yourself.

Years ago I asked my friend, the great actress Ruth Gordon, to articulate in a few words the secret to her indomitable, unsinkable spirit. Her reply was a gift that became a mantra for me: "It takes courage. It takes believing in it. It takes work. It takes rising above it. It takes me liking you, and you liking me. It takes the dreaming soul of the human race that wants it to go right. Never stop dreaming. Think about it.

I thought I understood what was best. I knew too little and believed too soon.

I couldn't live with myself if I thought nothing could get better.

You are as good-hearted as I believed," the woman said, "but you are foolish as well to take such a thing on yourself. Yet what kindhearted person does not have some foolishness about him.

Glynnis Campbell

Glynnis Campbell

Always remember that anything but death can be changed or ignored because most things people dread are man-made yet they seem so inevitable or basic.

Atheism is no genius, science stuff.

Believe in the truth before you believe in yourself.

Deliberately and spiritedly doing the opposite of what it takes to get there yet you expect to get there. This is one of the true definitions of madness.

Even those who love falsity will swear that they hate falsity. Because they believe falsity is the truth. So love the truth.

Nothing beats a combination of self-belief and truth.

The greatest human weakness is conformity to falsity.

The magic you need is the right you.