Believe Quotes: Encouragement for Your Journey - page 42
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
I believe the power to make money is a gift from God...to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.
John D. Rockefeller
We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.
Charles Alexander Eastman
We live in a society where we basically live and strive on what people think about us. We’re more visual people so what we see is basically what we believe which is not necessarily true.
A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
Louisa May Alcott
The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.
Alexey Leonov
I waved to everybody. Some of them even waved back. They knew me, had seen me go by before, always cheerful, a big hello for everybody. He was such a nice man. Very friendly. I can’t believe he did those horrible things . . .
Jeff Lindsay
I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.
Jeff Koons
The true measurement of a person's worth isn't what they say they believe in, but what they do in defense of those beliefs. If you're not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren't real.
Secularism is not only in our constitution but also in our veins. We worship Mother Nature too. We believe that the world is our family.
The strength of God will enable us, a small but faithful band, to overcome the multitude of the faithless.
Robert Guiscard
Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts.
Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones.
Andrew Solomon
My third mother is my paternal grandmother. Her name is Viola. She gave me my sense of knowing why, or knowing why it was important to ask why. She made me understand that I don't have to believe everything I hear.
Erykah Badu
To believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means rejecting the lure of sin, however attractive it may be, in order to set out on the difficult path of the Gospel virtues.
Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?
The cultural ban on having sex with your friends is an inevitable offshoot of a societal belief that the only acceptable reason to have sex is to lead to a monogamous marriagelike relationship.
Dossie Easton
