Pastoral Resources

My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.

Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally.