Quotes About Beliefs

If we hold beliefs skillfully, we will not get entangled in them, but will see them as the mental constructs they are. When we claim our right to question everything, including our beliefs, we can unhook from our dependence on what is familiar and let in the heartfelt, open, fresh quality of faith.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not to their own facts.

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If democracy is about participating in self-government, its first requirement is a supportive culture, a complex of beliefs, values, and practices that nurture equality, cooperation, and freedom. A rarely discussed but crucial need of a self-governing society is that the members and those they elect to office tell the truth.

In classical totalitarian regimes it was assumed that total power demanded that the entirety of society's institutions, practices, and beliefs had to be dictated from above and coordinated (gleichgeschaltet), that total power was achievable only through the control of everything from the top.

It is time that we as Christians recognize that it is our beliefs and our values and our way of life that are under attack.

If we have any criticism of our leaders, we invite Satan into our lives and beliefs.

Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.

You can choose to live your lives as demonstrations of your highest and grandest beliefs, rather than as denials of them.

You can choose to acknowledge that some of your old beliefs about God and about Life are no longer working.

I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.

Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts.

Whether your beliefs are true or totally insane, if you accept them, then that's what your life will be about.

I have been around conservatives my entire life. I have never met a single human being, in any place, who wanted to ban contraceptives.

When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.

I'm not a political guy. I've been a Democrat my whole life, but that didn't mean I went in and just pulled the Democratic ticket.

It is important that early in life you choose companionable prejudices, for the fact is that they are likely to stay with you for a lifetime.

If principles can become dated, they're not principles.

The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human beings could survive a life in hotels.

Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them.

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.

People in Ireland believed that fairies or the gentle folk were not earthly, having originated on other planets. Fairies often travel about the skies in cloudlike aerial boats called "fairy boats" or "spectre ships" (Rojcewicz 1991, p. 481).

Their reactions are as perhaps Westerners would react to ghosts; not necessarily terrified (or not always so) but certainly wary of what they see" (Hind 1993, p. 17).

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.