“It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.” PeopleSelfBeliefActingCareersStageExampleGoes OnAffirmationBelief In SelfEnticing Author:Miranda Otto
“Prayer is not a monologue. It speaks to God and to the community. In the last analysis, religion is not what goes on inside a soul. It is what goes on in the world, between people, between us and God. To trap faith in a monologue, and pretend that it resides solely inside the self, undermines the true interchange of all belief.” PeopleWorldSoulSelfLastsBeliefSpeakCommunityPrayerGoes OnAnalysisTrapsMonologuesInterchange Author:David Wolpe
“No matter what the belief, if it had modestly said, 'This is our best thought, go on, think farther!' then we could have smoothly outgrown our early errors and long since have developed a religion such as would have kept pace with an advancing world. But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.” IfsThinkingWorldBelieveLongMadeSaidMatterBeliefGoes OnNo Matter WhatErrorsExperimentsPaceAdvancing Book:His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers Source: His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers