Quotes About Beliefs

Have your own opinions, stand up for your own beliefs. You have your own brain, so use it. - Kailin Gow

There are certain things I couldn't write because they're not intrinsic to my beliefs. For instance, I couldn't write a hero or heroine who didn't put children first.

I think, for a while, my music was exclusively for those who shared my beliefs. But I realized I was perpetuating the bubble that I was living in instead of inviting people into my world.

I grew up in Ireland, and there were so many things we believed in.

I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned.

Jeremy Corbin is a little too liberal for me.

Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.

I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.

I've just never been a person that was political or religiously savvy. Except for the fact that I was born Jewish. That gives me 10 circumcision jokes.

Social media should be more like a cocktail party than anything else. You can have your fun jokes, and you can also express yourself and your beliefs. It's a conversation, not a sledgehammer.

Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property, which like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might best be served, and what service was myself best fitted by nature to perform.

The primary means of achieving unity, after prayer for the conversion of all of us to the ways of the Lord, is to engage in dialogue. Genuine dialogue means each party brings the fullness of their beliefs and shares them, trusting the dialogue partner to respect them.

National identity begins with a shared belief in the legitimacy of the country's political system, whether that system is democratic or not. Identity can be embodied in formal laws and institutions that dictate, for example, what the educational system will teach children about their country's past, or what will be considered an official national language.

If morality is reducible to culture, then there can be no real moral progress. For the only way one can say that a culture is getting better , or progressing, is if there are objective moral norms that are not dependent on culture to which a society may draw closer.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

Liturgical practices, rightly used, communicate something right about God (orthodoxy comes from orthodoxia, "right praise"). Christ gives his body and blood, broken and shed for us for forgiveness of sins, life, and salvation. The Spirit gives gifts that build up the community. These correct beliefs are also communicated in the historic liturgy and all its local uses. The continuing proper use of this liturgy builds up a community of faith in Jesus Christ crucified and risen again.

doctrinal conceptions among Pentecostals are too diverse to provide us with that which is theologically distinctive to the movement.

Due to a combination of dispositional characteristics and personal performance histories, functional performers typically expect positive performance outcomes, and dysfunctional performers typically expect negative performance outcomes. Over time, these beliefs become strongly held and difficult to change. In addition, these belief sets can become self-fulfilling because they affect how the performer interprets challenge or threat in performance situations (Sbrocco & Barlow, 1996). For

The author concedes that humanity had the fatal tendency to shape truth to our beliefs rather than beliefs to the Truth.

If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, scientists are only slightly better.

So much for Western origin stories, which depict our forebears as ferocious, fearless, and free. Unbound by social commitments and merciless toward their enemies, they seem to have stepped straight out of your typical action movie. Present-day political thought keeps clinging to these macho myths, such as the belief that we can treat the planet any way we want, that humanity will be waging war forever, and that individual freedom takes precedence over community.

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