Quotes About Belief

Only old maids and women who'd been widowed for over ten years could apply for membership in the SLS. They had a firm belief that the close proximity of men clouded logical thinking. I tended to agree.

Despite all the confidence I had in my ability to do my job, I hadn't had any in myself as a person.

Religion was by and large constructed by men, and I had yet to find a man who was logical.

You've always been strong. You just had to believe it.

should. I learned a long time ago to never close my mind to possibilities. Every time I did it made a fool of me.

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I think they abuse anyone who don't toe the line. And with religious folk, that line can be a murky mess. People ain't got limits when they sure God is behind 'em.

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What after all has maintained the human race on this old Globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities and courage to advocate them.

We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.

The popular books are the novels, dealing with life under all possible conditions, and they are widely read not only because they are entertaining, but also because they in a measure satisfy an unformulated belief that to see farther, to know all sorts of men, in an indefinite way, is a preparation for better social adjustment--for the remedying of social ills.

There is something very significant about Jane Austen's own reservation in her letter about the Evangelicals. She was "at least persuaded that they who are so from reason and feeling, must be happiest and safest". It leaves one wondering just what her own reason and feeling were telling her. We have no idea. In this passage, she sounds curiously like someone of our own times saying how much they would like to believe in God, if only they could.

I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

a latent belief in the spontaneity of nature.

Even then she wore the look of certain fanatics who think of themselves as leaders without once having gained the respect of a single human being.

Well," said Miss Goering, "perhaps my maneuvers do seem a little strange, but I have thought for a long time now that often, so very often, heroes who believe themselves to be monsters because they are so far removed from other men turn around much later and see really monstrous acts being committed in the name of something mediocre.

When you are depressed, believing you have failed at something regularly referred to as 'the plan of happiness' can very quickly generate despair.

It is possible to care too much. It is possible to believe that you will never be as good as anyone else. And it is possible to let these things take over.

I was quite enchanted with myself. I had always thought I had very strong views on sexual morality. I found I had nothing of the kind.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.

Where there is life, there is hope.