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Quotes About Belief

ideology that 'gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
Demonstrative proof is lacking, but if we thought only about those things about which such proof were available, our minds would be empty most of the time.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
ideological aim: to subvert the very concept and deny the possibility of virtue, and therefore of the necessity for restraint.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
If Custine were among us now, he would recognise the evil of political correctness at once, because of the violence that it does to people's souls by forcing them to say or imply what they do not believe but must not question. Custine would demonstrate to us that, without an external despot to explain our pusillanimity, we have willingly adopted the mental habits of people who live under a totalitarian dictatorship. Custine
~ Theodore Dalrymple
If Custine were among us now, he would recognise the evil of political correctness at once, because of the violence that it does to people's souls by forcing them to say or imply what they do not believe but must not question.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
it is widely believed that the purpose of art is to challenge, to question, to transgress, never to celebrate, to harmonise, to console, to give meaning.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstances.
~ Theodore Dreiser
THE most hopeful adage of political folklore is: "One man plus the truth makes a majority.
~ Theodore H. White
Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.
~ Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
~ Theodore N. Vail
The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Believe you can and you're halfway there".
~ Theodore Roosevelt
In a republic, to be successful we must learn to combine intensity of conviction with a broad tolerance of difference of conviction. Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Believe you can and you are halfway there
~ Theodore Roosevelt
believe you can and you're already halfway there
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Believe that you can and you are halfway there
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Yet it is curious to see how a really truthful man will forget his misses, and his hits at close quarters, and, by dint of constant repetition, will finally persuade himself that he is in the habit of killing his game at three or four hundred yards.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Hearsay cannot stand as valid testimony, and assumption spun from hearsay is a rope of sand.
~ Theodore Roscoe
Dumnezeu e-n ochi. La fel si Diavolul, de fiecare data cand clipesti.
~ Theodore Roszak
Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge.
~ Theodore Roszak
Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
~ Theodore White