Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts.
Believe Quotes: Encouragement for Your Journey - page 37
Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.
God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative.
John Powell
I would say that Barack Obama has always been a real optimist about what can be accomplished. He believes that government can be used to create systemic, long-term, real change. And the first lady is more of a skeptic.
Jodi Kantor
We were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations; we have stamped it out.
I just want people to feel like they can achieve something great in their lives. We all go through rough times, but love is the antidote. You've got to dream and just believe in yourself. And if you believe, you will achieve it.
Common
I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have the courage to acknowledge anything, the courage to possess, to own anything.
Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind, Faithful friends are hard to find.
Richard Barnfield
I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
Ahmed Ben Bella
It is a universal condition of the enjoyable that the mind must believe in the existence of a law, and yet have a mystery to move about in.
James Clerk Maxwell
Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd.
Peter Abelard
Because it protects you. And when I jumped from the Humvee, I believed it would save me, too, in the same way you believe it will always save you. No, I don’t, Thibault began. Then why, my friend, do you still carry it with you?
When I look around, the biggest way in which we are failing to care for those in need is through ignoring climate change and acting like it doesn't exist. As a Christian, I believe that is something the church needs to know.
Katharine Hayhoe
I believe Fernand Point is one of the last true gourmands of the 20th century. His ruminations are extraordinary and thought-provoking. He has been an inspiration for legions of chefs.
Thomas Keller
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.
You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.
John Fowles
The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.
Duane Michals
The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it.
Hal Lindsey
