Pastoral Resources

It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.

I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

Our belief is that it is a basket of well-diversified companies that are playing the Internet, but are not direct Internet companies.

That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.