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“In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)”

Belief Term Effort Goodness Enlightenment Connected Sooner Or Later Plato Plato S Truth And Beauty

Author:Susan Neiman

“I do not believe in a God who would set up rules and commandments only to wait for us to fail so He could punish us. I believe in a Heavenly Father who is loving and caring and who rejoices in our every effort to stand tall and walk toward Him. Even when we stumble, He urges us not to be discouraged-never to give up or flee our allotted field of service-but to take courage, find our faith, and keep trying.”

“The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally strenuous efforts on the part of an American public anxious to believe in egalitarian fictions and unwilling to see what is hidden in plain sight.”

Believe Doe Pain Belief Effort Fiction Depends Sight Disappear Anxious Spares Promoting Unwilling Oligarchy No Pain Plain Sight

Author:Michael Lind

“His [Turgot's] first important literary and scholastic effort was a treatise On the Existence of God. Few fragments of it remain, but we are helped to understand him when we learn that he asserted, and to the end of his life maintained, his belief in an Almighty Creator and Upholder of the Universe. It did, indeed, at a later period suit the purposes of his enemies, exasperated by his tolerant spirit and his reforming plans, to proclaim him an atheist; but that sort of charge has been the commonest of missiles against troublesome thinkers in all times.”

“It is a revolution; a revolution of the most intense character; in which belief in the justice, prudence, and wisdom of secession is blended with the keenest sense of wrong and outrage, and it can no more be checked by human effort for the time than a prairie fire by a gardener's watering pot.”

Humans Character Belief Justice Effort Fire Revolution Intense Pot Prudence Gardener Outrage Prairie Secession

Author:Judah P. Benjamin

“The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God, gaveus relgions which coule not possible maintained without belief and obedience: ... we find them most permanent and changeless among people who make the least effort to swquare their beliefs with the laws of life.”

People Men Mind Law Belief Effort Atheism Positive Atheism Obedience Permanent Abstract Revelations Soar Imaginative Lofty Laws Of Life

Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“I have a healthy respect for those individuals and the businesses that they represent. Their involvement only solidifies my belief that the United Way is a worthy organization to donate my time and efforts to.”

Way Individual Belief United Effort Healthy Organization Worthy My Time Involvement Donate United Way

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I want that there should be a belief, a faith in the possibility of removing mountains to the side of right. If we believe that war is wrong, as everyone must, then we ought to believe that by proper efforts on our part, it may be done away with.”

Ifs Want Should Believe May War Done Belief Sides Effort Possibility Ought Mountain

Author:Lucretia Mott

“Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and, as the theory would predict, they are usually denigrated for their efforts. While they are alive, they may be called 'cantankerous,' 'crazy,' 'hysterical,' 'uppity,' or 'duped.' Dead, some of them become saints and heroes, the sterling characters of history. It's a matter of proportion. One angry rebel is crazy, three is a conspiracy, 50 is a movement.”

“You can't escape from a prison until you recognize you are in one. People who have chosen to live within the limits of their old beliefs continue to have the same experiences. It takes effort and commitment to break old patterns”

People Belief Effort Break Limits Commitment Prison Patterns Chosen Limiting Beliefs Prison Break

Author:Bob Proctor

“The upshot of pervasive public belief in the uncontrollable sexuality of teenagers, and even of pre-teenagers, is that parents arehalf-hearted in their efforts to supervise and control their children, even when they are filled with anxiety as to their children's ability to cope with a full-fledged sexual relationship. "How can we buck the tide?" parents say helplessly, often without making quite certain that the ocean they see is a real one and not a mirage.”

Children Real Certain Belief Parent Ability Effort Anxiety Ocean Filled Sexuality Teenager Tides Hearted Bucks Uncontrollable Mirages Real Ones

Author:Marie Winn

“Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth. In stewardship of the common heritage, a few simple beliefs recur: that all are indeed members of the same human family, that all share in responsibility for the others, that each is capable of responding directly to divine guidance. To seek to translate these into practical action with regard to soil or petroleum or the fish of the sea is not necessarily to do what is directly effective in changing society.”

“People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior is better predicted from their beliefs than from the actual consequences of their actions”

People Action Belief Levels Results Effort Effects Behavior Consequence Distribution Self Efficacy

Book:Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

“If we think it takes a lot of effort and hard work to get what we want, then our life is going to be about struggle.”

Ifs Thinking Want Hard Life Is Belief Effort Struggle Our Lives Hard Work Effort And Hard Work

Book:Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want

Source: Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want

“We must teach the next generation to not just learn languages, but whole cultures and belief systems. We will then make more of an effort to understand people and their different cultures.”

People Different Whole Culture Next Belief Language Effort Teach Generations Next Generation Belief Systems Different Cultures

Author:Jane Seymour

“Science has long been in the value business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of scientists abstaining from making value judgments; rather, scientific validity is the result of scientists making their best efforts to value principles of reasoning that link their beliefs to reality, through reliable chains of evidence and argument.”

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Author:Sam Harris

“Healing... is an active and internal process that includes investigating one's attitudes, memories and beliefs with the desire to release all negative patterns that prevent one's full emotional and spiritual recovery. This internal review inevitably leads one to review one's external circumstances in an effort to recreate one's life in a way that serves activation of will - the will to see and accept truths about one's life and how one has used one's energies; and the will to begin to use energy for the creation of love, self-esteem, and health.”

Source: Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing