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“Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.”

Sometimes Lying Belief Cities Wall Difficulty City Walls

Author:Rachel Hartman

“It's part of the buzz of the city among Christians. It wouldn't surprise me that it got to George Bush. He reads, he picks stuff up, he talks to people. And he's pretty serious about his own Christian beliefs.”

People Christian Belief Stuff Cities Christianity Serious Picks Surprise Buzz Surprise Me

Author:Charles Colson

“Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.”

“Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it.”

Years Stills Belief Cities Twenties Absence Paris Thirty Persistent Thirty Years Year One Nothing Ever Changes

Book:Outside

Source: Outside

“Tim Keller's ministry in New York City is leading a generation of seekers and skeptics toward belief in God. I thank God for him.”

Belief Cities Generations New York New York City Thank God Ministry Seekers Skeptic Belief In God

Author:Billy Graham

“Our sacred beliefs have been made pencils / names of cities / gas stations / My knee is wounded so badly that I limp constantly / Anger is my crutch / I hold myself upright with it / My knee is wounded / see / How I Am Still Walking.”

Has Beens Made Stills Names Belief Cities Walking Sacred Discrimination Knees Gas Stations Wounded Pencils Crutches Gas Stations

Book:Not vanishing

Source: Not vanishing

“Nothing lasts. So it's my belief, yes, I know a lot of the things that we liked didn't last, but maybe things we don't like, they're also not going to last. There has been progress in my lifetime. There are certainly things that are better than when I was young, and there are things that are worse. New York City, it's worse. There's no question.”

Knows Has Beens Lasts Young Belief Cities Progress New York Lifetime New York City

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Maybe this is all a bit of a myth, a willful desire to give each place its own unique aura. But doesn't any collective belief eventually become a kind of truth? If enough people act as if something is true, isn't it indeed "true," not objectively, but in the sense that it will determine how they will behave? The myth of unique urban character and unique sensibilities in different cities exists because we want it to exist.”

People Ifs Want Giving Kind Different Enough Character Desire Belief Bits Cities Unique Determine Myth Behave Collectives Sensibility Urban Auras

Author:David Byrne

“It is safe to say that almost every person living in New Orleans at the moment Hurricane Katrina struck shared your belief in an omnipotent, omniscient, and compassionate God. But what was God doing while Katrina laid waste to their city? Surely He heard the prayers of those elderly men and women who fled the rising waters for the safety of their attics, only to be slowly drowned there.”

“The catastrophe of the atomic bombs which shook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of their old-established habits of thought, and out of the lightly held beliefs and prejudices that came down to them from the past.”

Men Past Belief Cities Economic Habit Prejudice Relation Bombs Catastrophe Atomic Bomb

Book:H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…

Source: H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…