T Quotes
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“To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.”
Source: Complete Essays
“To behold is to believe.”
“To behold the bliss of good, you must first reject the believe in evil.”
“To behold the day-break!
The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,
The air tastes good to my palate.”
Source: Leaves of Grass
“To behold, you must first believe.”
“To behold, is not necessary to observe, and the power of comparing and combining is only to be obtained by education. It is much to be regretted that habits of exact observation are not cultivated in our schools; to this deficiency may be traced much of the fallacious reasoning, the false philosophy which prevails.”
“To bein with, no other word other than a swear word conveys the right emotion of the person delivering it, If you're a person who says the F*** word, then you would know what I mean. There is no substitute for this priceless word as it denotes the emotion of the swearer with accuracy - anger, frustration, disappointment, etc. When a person calls another, 'You bi***h', he or she means that the other is cunning, manipulative, self-centred and is a person who uses others for their own vested interests. Correct me if I am wrong.”
Source: I Am Audacious
“To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.”
Source: Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of
“To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it. Reading gathers the clusters; contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice.”
Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series
“To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.”
“To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.”
Source: Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections
“To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith”
Source: Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition
“To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.”
Source: The Culture of Make Believe
“To believe, despite everything, to have hope- that was a choice.”
Source: Lotería
“To believe everything is to be an imbecile.
To deny everything is to be a fool.”
“To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment.”
Source: The Courage to Create
“To believe happiness-misery in circumstances is artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self). One becomes unhappy when he loses what he likes and one becomes happy when he comes across what he likes; that is all considered as artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self).”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.”
Source: Living Without Fear
“To believe in a universe as young as 6 or 7,000 years old is to extinguish the light from most of the galaxy.”
“To believe in anything takes risk," Arpien said. "Perhaps the risk of disappointed hopes is greater than the reward of fulfilled ones.”
Source: Waking Beauty
“To believe in Christ is to give your heart to Christ, which means not to affirm things about Christ, but it's like what you mean when you say, "I believe in my friend."”
“To believe in coincidences, to believe in fate— it ties into the spiritual realm, to the idea that there is something universal out there, something looking out for you, watching over you, guiding you.”
Source: The Soul Searcher's Handbook: A Modern Girl's Guide to the New Age World
“To believe in explanations is good, because it means you may believe also that beneath the chaotic, mindless jumble of everything, beneath the horrible disjunction you feel at every moment between you and all you are not, there dwells in the universe a secret harmony, a coherence and rightness like a balanced equation that’s out of reach for now but some day will reveal itself in its entirety.”
“To believe in faeries is to step into an enchanted space where the rational mind meets the irrational heart, and all things become possible.”
“To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.”
Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...
“To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.”
“To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!”
“To believe in God is not to affirm His existence. To believe in God means to trust God, to rely on God to be there for you when you are afflicted by despair, to light your path when you are uncertain as to what to do.”
Source: Nine Essential Things I've Learned About Life
“To believe in God is to give your heart to God.”
“To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.”
“To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning.”
“To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.”
“To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.”
“To believe in God starts with a conclusion about Him, develops into confidence in Him, and then matures into a conversation with Him.”
“To believe in Him under any particular form is not enough. Accept Him in His numberless forms, shapes and modes of being, in everything that exists. Aim at the whole and all your actions will be whole.”
“To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.”
Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)
“To believe in Jesus Christ is to be saved from death to life eternal.”
“To believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means rejecting the lure of sin, however attractive it may be, in order to set out on the difficult path of the Gospel virtues.”
“To believe in Jesus, is to believe that the historic person who lived on this earth more than 2000 years ago was the image of the invisible God. That's a huge leap of faith, but it is my leap of faith, it's the act of faith of the Christian community.”
“To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.”
“To believe in miracles in one thing...to know what miracle you want to manifest right now, and accept it, is another.”
“To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge.”
“To believe in one's self is to take a worthwhile risk.”
“To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: It is the only way we can leave the future open.”
Source: The journey
“To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.”
“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
“To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.”
Source: Sermons: Sermons for the principal festivals and fasts of the church year, ed. by Rev John Cotton Brooks
“To believe in the possibilities of self is to unleash the power of the spirit quieted by doubt ~”