“At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.” EndsBeliefBreakReaderElementsThe End Of The DayAttachmentRealismMagical RealismMake Or Break Author:Tea Obreht
“If we base our belief systems on the humble assumption that the complexities of the world are ontologically beyond our understanding, then maybe our belief systems will make more sense and end up causing less suffering.” IfsWorldEndsSufferingBeliefUnderstandingLogicHumbleCertaintyUncertaintyComplexityAssumptionReasoningBelief SystemsOntology Author:Moby
“The end of nature sours all my material pleasures. The prospect of living in a genetically engineered world sickens me. And yet it is toward such a world that our belief in endless material advancement hurries us. As long as that desire drives us, here is no way to set limits.” WorldWayLongEndsDesireBeliefPleasureMaterialsFutureLimitsEndlessAdvancement Author:Bill McKibben
“President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom, and his willingness to act on that belief, helped end the Cold War and usher in a new and brighter phase of history.” WarEndsAmericaSpiritBeliefPresidentDemocracyColdOptimismUltimateTriumphWillingnessPhasesCold WarBrighterHis SmilePresident Reagan Author:Colin Powell
“The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.” FirstsEndsHappensScienceBeliefHighestConscienceCourtConvictionPhysicistLawfulness Author:Max Planck
“If we repeatedly read the Bible without the help of the Holy Spirit, it tends to reinforce our own prejudices and rock-hard doctrinal positions. We end up merely finding ammunition for what we already believe. We become so spiritually proud, so convinced of our own positions, that the Spirit is hindered in helping us to grow in the things of God.” IfsBelieveEndsHardGodHelpingChristianSpiritualSpiritFaithReadingBeliefGrowsReligiousLordRocksPositionProudBecomingHolyFindingsBiblePrejudiceConvincedChristian InspirationalDoctrineHoly SpiritPastorAmmunition Author:Jim Cymbala
“Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end all wars and wanted to make it so, now in this Second World War almost no writer that I have read dares even suggest that this is the war to end all wars, or act on that belief? We have lost the courage to hope.” WorldWarEndsWantedLastsBeliefLostExampleDareWar Of The WorldsTragicSecond World War Book:Between Tears and Laughter Source: Between Tears and Laughter
“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.” FirstsHas BeensImportantEndsSpiritPurposeUniverseBeliefEffortExistenceEnemyPlansPeriodsAtheistCreatorSuitsAll TimeThinkerAlmightyFragmentsMissilesTroublesomeExistence Of GodScholastics Author:Andrew Dickson White
“Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run.” MayIdeasEndsRunningBeliefEnergySourceBatteriesClip Author:J. M. Coetzee
“One of the great threats to our national security is social cohesion. If people no longer believe that you can start out anywhere and end up at the top successfully in America, that the American dream is part of the past, I think that erodes a sense of belief and confidence in our nation.” PeopleIfsThinkingBelieveEndsDreamAmericaPastBeliefNationsSocialSecurityThreatAmerican DreamNational SecurityCohesionErode Author:Joel Klein
“And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility was simply to know the season, and match my actions and inactions to it. It was to learn the slow hard discipline of waiting. It was my season to believe in spite of-to believe in the absence of evidence or emotion, when there's nothing, no bud, no color, no light, no birdsong, to validate belief. It was my time to walk without sight.” KnowsBelieveEndsHardLightActionBeliefWaitingMy OwnWalksEmotionResponsibilityColorDisciplineEvidenceSeasonsSightWinterInsightAbsenceMy TimeSpiteInactionBudBirdsong Author:Mark Buchanan
“The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.” MenEndsCultureBeliefDivineSupplements Book:Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations Source: Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations
“In Chaos Magic , beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects. To fully realize this is to face a terrible freedom in which nothing is true and everything is permitted, which is to say that everything is possible, there are no certainties , and the consequences can be ghastly.” EndsFacesBeliefRealizingMagicEffectsTerribleCreatingConsequenceToolsChaosCertaintyGhastly Book:Liber Kaos Source: Liber Kaos
“Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the future, the positive thinker ends up being less prepared, and more acutely distressed, when things eventually happen that he can't persuade himself to believe are good.” BelieveEndsHappensFightingBeliefGreaterOptimismPreparedShockThinkerWhen Things Go WrongPositive Thinker Author:Oliver Burkeman
“There is no Christian Gospel if history simply unwinds into a meaningless puddle, if the cosmos simply escapes into a cataclysmic black hole, or if the universe finally dies of exhausted energy. Without belief in a biblical eschatology, there is no Christian hope. Without a sense of perfect moral judgment in the end, the human heart is homeless.” IfsHumansHeartEndsChristianDiesUniverseBeliefEnergyBlackPerfectMoralJudgmentHolesCosmosMeaninglessBiblicalHomelessExhaustedHuman HeartBlack HolePuddlesUnwindChristian HopeMoral JudgmentEschatology Author:Albert Mohler