Belief Quotes - Page 28

• I wish more fantasy, especially the dominant fantasy that draws heavily on British and Christian lore, would wrestle with its own ethnospecific nature and what that means when the story is set somewhere where more than one belief system is in operation. If all you do is pay lip service to it, you can get the kind of thing where the writer has thrown one Hindu god into a Christianist fantasy (rendering said god by default a demon or otherwise inferior to the dominant religious system of the story, which is such an insult), and the hero is able to vanquish it by chanting a spell in church Latin.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  Christian, Religious, Latin

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• We need not a new set of beliefs, but a new way of believing, not simply new answers to the same old questions, but a new set of questions.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Believe, Needs, Answers

  Brian D. McLaren (2010). “A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give my work its chief characteristics.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Believe, Giving, Catholic

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• For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.

  William Peter Blatty

  Thinking, Matter, Reason

  William Peter Blatty (2015). “William Peter Blatty on "The Exorcist": From Novel to Screen”, p.10, Macmillan

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• Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Art, Taken, Men

  Edward Burnett Tylor (2016). “Primitive Culture”, p.1, Courier Dover Publications

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• Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic 'taken for granted' fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment.

  Edgar Schein

  Fashion, Taken, Self

  "Organizational Culture and Leadership: A Dynamic View". Book by Edgar Schein, 1985.

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• If you have a lemon; make lemonade.

  Howard Gossage

  Fortune Cookie, Lemonade, Lemons

  Howard Luck Gossage, Kim B. Rotzoll, Jarlath Graham, June Barrows Mussey (1986). “Is there any hope for advertising?”, Univ of Illinois Pr

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• There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic... Just like rock climbing.

  David Schuller

  Funny, Lying, Rocks

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• Duane Allman was bursting with energy ... he was a force to be reckoned with. His drive and focus, as well as his intense belief in himself and our band, was incredible. He knew we were going to make it. We all knew we were a good band, but no one had that supreme confidence like he did, and it was a great thing, because his confidence and enthusiam were infectious... it says a lot that his hero was Muhammad Ali. That kind of supreme confidence that Ali had - that's where Duane was coming from

  Richard Betts

  Music, Hero, Focus

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• All your beliefs, they're just that. They're nothing. They're how you were taught and raised. That doesn't make 'em real.

  Bill Hicks

  Real, Ems, Taught

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• 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

  People, Needs, Kind

  Andrew Solomon (2017). “Far from the Tree: Young Adult Edition--How Children and Their Parents Learn to Accept One Another . . . Our Differences Unite Us”, p.425, Simon and Schuster

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• You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

  Rose Macaulay

  Women, Believe, Reading

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• American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Faith, Government, Faith In God

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• It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew their profits from the unspeakable horrors of the middle passage. Christian slaveholders treated their slaves as they did the cattle in their fields: they worked them, scourged them, mated them , parted them, and sold them at will. Abolition came with the decline in religious belief, and largely through the efforts of those who were denounced as heretics.

  Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

  Christian, Religious, Blood

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• Boundaries emerge from deep within. They are connected to letting go of guilt and shame, and to changing our beliefs about what we deserve. As our thinking about this becomes clearer, so will our boundaries. Boundaries are also connected to a Higher Timing than our own. We’ll set a limit when we’re ready, and not a moment before. So will others. There’s something magical about reaching that point of becoming ready to set a limit. We know we mean what we say; others take us seriously too. Things change, not because we’re controlling others, but because we’ve changed.

  Melody Beattie

  Life, Success, Letting Go

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• Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.

  Christian Lous Lange

  War, Blessed, Shadow Of Death

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• But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Giving, Consideration, Certainty

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• A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

  Inspirational, Funny, Respect

  Keep the Faith, Baby! "Black Power: A Form of Godly Power" (1967)

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• The way to belief is short and easy, the way to knowledge is long and hard.

  Ernst Stuhlinger

  Long, Way, Easy

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• The Democrats had long labeled the impeachment debate a distraction from the urgent business of a great nation. But the Republicans argued that the pursuit of justice is the business of a great nation. In winning this point, they caught the falling flag, producing a triumph for the rule of law, a reassertion of the belief that no man is above it, and a rebuke for an arrogance that had grown imperial.

  Peggy Noonan

  Fall, Winning, Men

  "The Good Guys Finally Won" by Peggy Noonan, www.wsj.com. December 21, 1998.

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• The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

  James A. Garfield

  Life, Men, Risk

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.636, Best Books on

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• In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Hurt, Order, Arrows

  Wei Wu Wei (2004). “Posthumous Pieces”, p.55, Sentient Publications

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• It boils down to studenthood-in-perpetuity / curiosity-in-perpetuity / applied fanatic restlessness. That is, a belief that life is ONE BIG LEARNING EXPERIENCE. Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind - and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered. The results: an exponentially increased ability to tune up / reinvent / WOW-ize today's project at work.

  Tom Peters

  Education, Work, Curiosity

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• Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief.

  Steve Pavlina

  Curiosity, Practicals, Flexible

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• I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Believe, Curiosity, Religion

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2317, e-artnow

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