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“Theology is just what you really think about God, and if you're going to do that, you'd better use your mind and not just let it be a receptacle - a catch-all for whatever beliefs happen to be passing by.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Use Happens Belief Theology Passing Passings Passing By

Author:Dallas Willard

“There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women to a vision of human claims in those races of their fellow-men who most differ from them in customs and beliefs.”

Ifs Men Should Humans Care Belief Imagination Race Vision Men And Women Claims Fellows Tolerance Customs Fellow Man

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Enough Belief Mistake Opinion Public Opinion Adaptability Wishful Thinking Hens

Book:The Best of Willa Cather

Source: The Best of Willa Cather

“A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.”

Ifs Should Hard Belief Politician Ems Statesmen

Author:James Russell Lowell

“If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.”

Ifs Should Belief Freedom Of Thought Have Confidence

Author:Bill Vaughan

“If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.”

Ifs Trying Believe Belief Wish Christianity Rewards Insight Assured

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“It is legitimate to have one's own point of view and political philosophy. But there are people who make anger, rather than a deeply held belief, the basis of their actions. They do not seem to mind harming society as a whole in the pursuit of their immediate objective. No society can survive if it yields to the demands of frenzy, whether of the few or the many.”

Source: Education, individual, and society: selected addresses

“Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.”

Ifs Heart Would Be Belief Social Conditions Effects Universal Reverence Belief In God Social Conditions

Book:In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan

Source: In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan

“Religion means a binding. If a man does not feel himself a part of the Universe, and does not hear its pulse, he is not religious. But once he has heard that pulse, he will be hearing it always. Every day his life will replenish itself from this inexhaustible source, eternal and powerful as the sun.”

Ifs Men Feels Mean Doe Universe Belief Religious Powerful Sun Heard Source Eternal Hearing Pulse Binding

Author:Svetlana Alliluyeva

“People are said to believe in God, or to disbelieve in Adam and Eve. But in such cases what is believed or disbelieved is that there is an entity answering a certain description. This, which can be believed or disbelieved is quite different from the actual entity (if any) which does answer the description. Thus the matter of belief is, in all cases, different in kind from the matter of sensation or presentation, and error is in no way analogous to hallucination. A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.”

Source: Logic and Knowledge: Essays 1901-1950

“if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.”

Ifs Want Art Belief Motive Belief In Yourself Ulterior Motive

Book:Push Comes to Shove

Source: Push Comes to Shove

“I still feel there is a case to be made for my old belief that as man approaches the 'new heaven and the new earth' -- or the space-age universe, if you will, he must do so with humility rather than with arrogance.”

Ifs Men Feels Made Stills Age Earth Universe Belief Heaven Space Cases Humility Approach Arrogance New Earth

Author:Rachel Carson

“But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change for the better just get up and work for it, all the time, with as much knowledge and intelligence as we can muster for it. Half the wrongs of human life exist because of the inertia of people who simply will not use their energies in fighting for what they believe in. And finally the wrongs roll up into world catastrophes and millions of deaths and a terrible set-back for all mankind.”

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.”

Ifs Believe Wanted Belief Music Is Believe In God Founders Belief Systems

Author:Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“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

“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.”

Ifs Thinking World Believe Long Made Said Matter Belief Goes On No Matter What Errors Experiments Pace Advancing

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

“Here is a myth for you if myths are your pleasure: "There is no more opportunity in this world." Most people held this false belief fifty years ago, the majority agreed with it five years ago, and practically everyone clings to it today. Clearly, this myth will also be the screaming rage in the future. Hang on to this myth, and you are destined to miss great opportunities for the rest of your life.”

People Ifs World Years Today Opportunity Belief Pleasure Five Missing This World Years Ago Majority Myth Rage Five Years Fifty Destined Rest Of Your Life Great Opportunity

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“According to theism, if a universe is to have any probability of existing, this probability is dependent upon God's beliefs, desires and creative acts. But the Hartle-Hawking probability is not dependent on any supernatural considerations; Hartle and Hawking do not sum over anything supernatural in their path integral derivation of the probability amplitude.”

Ifs Desire Religion Universe Belief Creative Path Dependent Consideration Probability Theism

Author:Quentin Smith

“The universal Law of Attraction states that we draw to us those people, events, and circumstances that match our inner state of being. In other words, we attract experiences that are consistent with our beliefs. If we believe that there is plenty of love in the world and we are worthy of giving and receiving that love, we will attract a different quality of relationships than someone who believes in scarcity or feels unworthy of happiness.”

Source: The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction

“We're in a strange state in our world where we sort of have that belief - and I have it too - that if it's written down there's got to be some truth in it. We haven't quite got to the spot where you go: "Well, it doesn't necessarily mean it's true." It could actually be completely made up and made to look very nice. So, we have to get to the point where scandal and those kinds of things are less and less important because otherwise we won't have anyone willing to run as politicians.”

Ifs World Wells Looks Kind Mean Made Important States Running Belief Nice Written Havens Strange Willing Politician Spots Our World Scandal Very Nice

Author:George Clooney

“If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.”

People Ifs Way Country Political Politics Belief Challenges Lines Opinion Information Our Country Assumption Divides Disagree Viewpoints

Author:Barack Obama

“The confidence in the unlimited power of science is only too often based on a false belief that the scientific method consists in the application of a ready-made technique, or in imitating the form rather than the substance of scientific procedure, as if one needed only to follow some cooking recipes to solve all social problems. It sometimes almost seems as if the techniques of science were more easily learnt than the thinking that shows us what the problems are and how to approach them.”

“The feelings, myths and prejudices about the Negro American which now seem so valid and real to some of our white contemporaries will take their place on the shelf along with the belief in witches and the notion that the earth is the center of the solar system. Nobody knows as yet whether the future [of the race situation] is hopeless. All we know is that it can be made hopeless, if enough people choose to consider it so.”

People Ifs Knows Made Real Enough Feelings Seems Earth Belief White Race Situation Prejudice Notion Myth Hopeless Witch Shelves Nobody Knows Solar System

Author:Margaret Halsey

“If it is finally accepted that the personality in whole or part survives death - and I believe that it will be - then such a belief will be considered as modern as a belief in spaceships and rockets.”

Ifs Believe Whole Belief I Believe Modern Personality Accepted Afterlife Rockets Spaceships

Book:ESP Power

Source: ESP Power

“At no time have I ever said that people should be stripped of their right to the insanity of belief in God. If they want to practice this kind of irrationality, that's their business. It won't get them anywhere; it certainly won't make them happier or more compassionate human beings; but if they want to chew that particular cud. they're welcome to it.”

People Ifs Want Should Humans Kind Said Belief Human Beings Practice Atheism Particular Welcome Insanity Compassionate Belief In God Irrationality

Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“Individuals who succeed have a belief in the power of commitment. If there's a single belief that seems almost inseparable from success, it's that there's no great success without commitment. If you look at successful people in any field, you'll find they're not necessarily the best and the brightest, the fastest and the strongest. You'll find they're the ones with the most commitment.”

People Ifs Looks Seems Motivational Individual Belief Successful Fields Succeed Commitment Strongest Successful People Inseparable Great Success

Book:Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement

Source: Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement

“Even if the absence of evidence for a given god were not evidence of its absence, it would still be evidence that the belief in that god is unreasonable. That's the only proposition that any atheist of any kind has to demonstrate in order to win the argument. Because anything beyond that... is just having fun.”

Ifs Kind Stills Order Winning Belief Given Fun Evidence Argument Atheist Absence Having Fun Propositions Unreasonable Just Have Fun

Author:Scott Clifton

“I am biased towards the belief that every painter must be grounded in strong and faultless drawing skills, and until one has not experimented with all styles of painting and has not comprehended their potentialities one's work is not complete. Even an abstract painter must know how to draw as well as a figurative artist. As for me, drawing has never created any problem, since I know how to draw anatomy correctly if I had to, I understand the function of muscle groups and sculpture.”

Ifs Knows Wells Problem Artist Belief Strong Know How Groups Style Painting Skills Draws Function Drawing Painter Abstract Muscles Grounded Sculpture Anatomy Biased

Author:Guity Novin

“it is my belief that one should learn patience in a foreign land, for I take it that this is the true measure of travel. If one does not suffer some frustration of the ordinary reflexes, how can one be sure one is really traveling?”

Ifs Should Doe Suffering Belief Land Travel Ordinary Frustration Reflexes Foreign Lands

Author:Gertrude Diamant

“The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.”

Ifs May Belief Worst Understood Doctrine

Book:The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok

Source: The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok

“To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your own joy and happiness in life is increased that way, and the pleasures of the belief outweigh the occasional disappointments. To be a cynic about people works just the other way around and makes you incapable about enjoying the good things.”

People Ifs Way Believe Important Seems Life Is Joy Belief Enjoy Pleasure Good Things Disappointment Be Good Incapable Occasional Life Happiness Joy And Happiness Cynic

Book:It's Been a Good Life

Source: It's Been a Good Life

“I would not be running for President if I didn't believe with all my heart that this is what the vast majority of Americans want for this country. This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. And today, whenever I find myself feeling doubtful or cynical about this possibility, what gives me the most hope is the next generation - the young people whose attitudes and beliefs and openness to change have already made history in this election.”

“I don't like medicine. There's an old Irish proverb that goes, "If I knew where I was going to die, I wouldn't go there." I suspect that I'm going to die in a hospital, so every time I go past one, I drive really quickly to get away from those things. So I spend a lot of money on health: gyms, I go to naturopaths, acupuncturists; anybody else who's almost the alternative to medicine. I think by the time you need medicine, it's too late. That's my belief.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Past Dies Belief Late Medicine Alternatives Too Late Get Away Suspects Hospitals Gym Lots Of Money Irish Proverbs

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning, you absolutely believe them. How can you live in joy when you're believing thoughts that bring on sadness, frustration, anger, alienation, and loneliness?”

Ifs Believe Joy Belief Sadness Loneliness Frustration Questioning Alienation Stressful

Author:Byron Katie

“Every single human civilization has failed over time, and my belief is that it's due to a lack of rational empathy, of understanding that if you don't have equality in your society, the conflicts you breed (whether internally or externally) will eventually cause its collapse.”

Ifs Humans Belief Causes Understanding Civilization Conflict Empathy Dues Rational Collapse Human Civilization

Author:Chris Kluwe

“We do not experience things as they really are! We experience things only through a filter and that filter determines what information will enter our awareness and what will be rejected. If we change the filter (our belief system), then we automatically experience the world in a completely different way.”

Ifs World Way Different Belief Awareness Information Determine Different Ways Rejected Filters Belief Systems

Book:The Sunfood Diet Success System

Source: The Sunfood Diet Success System

“I do believe that belief is the most powerful thing we have in this world. So, if we believe in something enough. And we have faith, we can make it a reality. That is basically the basis of my entire career and my entire life.”

Ifs World Believe Enough Reality Belief Powerful Careers This World Bases Most Powerful Have Faith

Author:Corey Feldman

“What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.”

People Ifs Believe Hard Young Opportunity Belief I Believe Nations Simple Poor Party Race Responsibility Rich Hard Work Profound Notion Regions Taking Responsibility Get Ahead Rich Or Poor

Author:Barack Obama

“I believe that working with good people matters because then the work environment is good. If there is a sense of respect and belief among the people you work with, that is when good work is done.”

People Ifs Believe Matter Done Belief I Believe Environment Good People Good Work Work Environment

Author:Ranbir Kapoor

“If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell.”

Ifs Might Belief Memories Hell Justification Survived

Book:One After Another

Source: One After Another

“We should strengthen the faith of our people in their own future, the faith of every Canadian in Canada, and of every province in its sister province. This faith wrongs no one; burdens no one; menaces no one; dishonors no one; and, as it was said of old, faith moves mountains, so I venture reverently to express my own belief that if the difficulties of our future as a dominion were as high as the peaks of the Alps or Andes, yet that the pure patriotic faith of a united people would be all sufficient to overcome and ultimately to triumph over all such difficulties.”

“The greatest quality that a person can possess is the quality of self-belief. If you believe you can, you can. If you believe you won't, you most certainly won't.”

Ifs Believe Persons Self Motivation Belief Quality India If You Believe Believe You Can Belief In Self

Author:Narendra Modi

“WHEN reading my present treatise, bear in mind that by "faith" we do not understand merely that which is uttered with the lips, but also that which is apprehended by the soul, the conviction that the object [of belief] is exactly as it is apprehended. If, as regards real or supposed truths, you content yourself with giving utterance to them in words, without apprehending them or believing in them, especially if you do not seek real truth, you have a very easy task as, in fact, you will find many ignorant people professing articles of faith without connecting any idea with them.”

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, some body of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family, and the school.”

Ifs Body School Spiritual Belief Church Moral Heritage Framework

Book:The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher

Source: The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher

“If a harmonious relationship is established amongst societies and religious beliefs in today's multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural world, then it will surely set a very good example for others.”

Ifs World Today Belief Religious Example Very Good Harmonious Religious Belief Good Examples Harmonious Relationship

Author:Dalai Lama

“If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.”

Ifs Want Belief Strong Religious Theater Religious Belief

Author:Marian Seldes

“I can see where influential people would like Maharishi better than Jesus. My God, if the Beatles and Mia Farrow went to Jesus, He'd tell them to give all their money away.”

People Ifs Giving I Can Jesus Belief Superstitions Influential Mia Influential People

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.”

Ifs Believe Play Seems Games Belief Forget Accepted Never Forget Superstitions Theological Make Believe

Book:Texts & pretexts: an anthology with commentaries

Source: Texts & pretexts: an anthology with commentaries

“How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.”

Ifs Lying Belief Mankind Hundred Credit Superstitions

Book:Ricordi

Source: Ricordi

“If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.”

Ifs Thinking Belief Red Paint British Like Me Superstitions If There Is A God

Author:Cecil Rhodes

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