T Quotes
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“To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now.”
“To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all. But to believe in the unseen is both a triumph and a blessing.”
“To believe in the truth of Christ is to be introduced to another form of hatred, and that is not sharing Him.”
Source: Killosophy
“To believe in time is to believe in change and vice versa. Those who claim that time does not exist have no idea what they are talking about, they are the disbelievers of change.”
“To believe in what you're doing is not just important. It is everything!”
“To believe in your choice you don't need to prove that other people's choices are wrong.”
“To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy. This is success!”
“To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams... This is success!”
“To believe in yourself is to light a spark with the potential to start a fire.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“To believe in yourself is to risk on yourself, and there will never be a time when that risk is too risky.”
“To believe in'the greater good' isto operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.”
“To believe is human to doubt is divine.”
“To believe is not intellectual assent: "Yes, I believe in Jesus. I will sign my name to the Nicene Creed. I believe it all" - which you could do, [but] it would have no effect on who you were or what you did. It is, rather, to give your heart.”
“To believe is to be.”
“To believe is to be blessed.”
“To believe is to be happy; to doubt is to be wretched. To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do any thing that is worth the doing.”
Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton
“To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power.”
Source: Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series
“To believe is to become what you believe.”
“To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.”
“To believe is to live your best.”
“To believe is to love one another.”
“To believe is to not only hold others to their word but also to prove ourselves reliable in the guarantees we have offered.”
“To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.”
“To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.”
“To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nusiance to be abraded and abated, and in some permissable manner made away with, and swept out of sight, is not an amiable faith.”
“To believe something and not live is like making fun of your abilities. You cannot be really trusted if you can dream and doubt its possibility.”
Source: Dream big!: See your bigger picture!
“To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.”
Source: Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness
“To believe something strongly when it is clearly hard to define and prove, and has not been proven, is to be prejudiced.”
Source: Meetings, Meetings and More Meetings: Getting Things Done when People are Involved
“To believe straight away is foolishness, to believe after having seen clearly is good sense. That is the Buddhist policy in belief; not to believe stupidly, or to rely only on people, textbooks, conjecture, reasoning, or whatever the majority believes, but rather to believe what we see clearly for ourselves to be the case. This is how it is in Buddhism.”
“To believe that alternatives are possible, we must envision them.”
“To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.”
“To believe that God created a plurality of worlds, at least as numerous as what we call stars, renders the Christian faith at once little and ridiculous; and scatters it in the mind like feathers in the air.”
Source: THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including
“To believe that He will preserve us is, indeed, a means of preservation. God will certainly preserve us, and make a way of escape for us out of the temptation, should we fall. We are to pray for what God has already promised. Our requests are to be regulated by His promises and commands. Faith embraces the promises and so finds relief.”
“To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood India. My vocation was culture, not sainthood.”
Source: Autobiography, Volume 1: 1907-1937, Journey East, Journey West
“To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.”
“To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“To believe that it is fair to punish an entire race or gender for the actions of a few individuals from that race or gender, who benefited a small group connected to the corrupt and guilty members of that race or gender, one must be ready to accept this reasoning when it affects them personally. We are after all Africans who believe in the spirit of Ubuntu, reciprocity, universally interpreted as the golden rule. If you believe in penalizing every white person for the actions of a few white politicians and their associates who have benefited from those actions, then it is only fair for you, as a black person, to also accept responsibility for all the corruption within the ANC, given that the ANC supposedly represents the black majority.
Whether you benefited is immaterial, as is the case for government-sanctioned affirmative action policies. We know it was a minority of white people who supported apartheid because the 1992 referendum to end apartheid was supported by 68,73 percent of the white population that voted.”
Source: The Homeschooling Father, How and Why I got started.: Traditional Schooling to Online Learning until Homeschooling
“To believe that man's aggressiveness or territoriality is in the nature of the beast is to mistake some men for all men, contemporary society for all possible societies, and, by a remarkable transformation, to justify what is as what needs must be; social repression becomes a response to, rather than a cause of, human violence. Pessimism about man serves to maintain the status quo. It is a luxury for the affluent, a sop to the guilt of the politically inactive, a comfort to those who continue to enjoy the amenities of privilege.”
“To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“To believe that one, or even three, mates can supply all the things one needs from one's friends is as stupid as believing married couples must do everything together.”
“To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous instead of a compulsory routine is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.”
“To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same kind of mind that believes that a Holy Roller has got rid of sin.”
“To believe that the experiences we have are valid, that the feelings and expressions of them are true and real and worthy of being listened to, is one of the greatest mercies we offer each other.”
Source: Glorious Weakness: Discovering God in All We Lack
“To believe that the expression of someone’s pain is the expression of their personhood does little more than express my ignorance about my own personhood as well as theirs.”
“To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers”
Source: The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings
“To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.”
Source: The Essential Writings
“To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the ambiguity of potentiality (which is always potentiality to do and not to do) — this is the perpetual illusion of morality.”
“To believe that you can outwit the truth is to have been outwitted.”
“To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that you need nothing to be happy, except Self-knowledge, is wisdom.”
“To believe that your husband, wife, parents, kids, boss, job, bank account, or body is even partly responsible for your emotions, to think that there are bullets 'out there' that you have to contend with, that there are stressful life events to overcome, is to miss something vital.”