Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as justification to discriminate against others, don’t be upset when others decide you’re an asshole."
[Blog post of July 26, 2011]
Tags: belief religion law discrimination
But all them things exist," said Nanny Ogg.
"That's no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em.
Tags: belief
I don't hold with paddlin' with the occult," said Granny firmly. "Once you start paddlin' with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you're believing in gods. And then you're in trouble."
"But all them things exist," said Nanny Ogg.
"That's no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em.
Belief is like that, a circle, and often I find that the seemingly simplistic explanations from childhood for the unexplainable have merit, maybe more so than all the educated and contrived answers of adulthood.
Frances WashburnTags: belief
You cannot believe what you do not believe, Rumi siad. I am an Untouchable because my karma dictates it.
Christopher MooreThe moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.
J.M. BarrieTags: imagination belief fantasy magic flying scotland self-confidence peter-pan london barrie neverland park kensington-gardens
But, God knows best, I concluded.
Anne BrontëTags: belief god belief-in-god
People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.
Maya AngelouTags: wealth belief god religion poverty affluence maya-angelou i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings
You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you.
Steven Gallowaywe have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood
William JamesTags: wisdom knowledge belief ignorance
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