Pastoral Resources

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.

Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.

Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with human rights.

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.