Most people appear to live an unexamined life, cruising through the years without much reflection about what it means, and/or taking what life hands them and believing it’s all predestined.
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
I don’t have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing.
If you put negative things out about anyone every day, they’re gonna start believing it, sorta like propaganda if you think about it.
When words I uttered, believing them to be true, were exposed as false, I was constrained by my duties and loyalty to the President and unable to comment. But I promised reporters and the public that I would someday tell the whole story of what I knew.
To me, feminism is believing in women’s equality, and I ardently ascribe to that belief.
Doesn’t assuming that an intelligence created these perfect conditions require far less faith than believing that a life-sustaining Earth just happened to beat the inconceivable odds to come into being?
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.
I’ve done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they’re good reviews – you believe that and you’re lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that’s true and you read that and you’re lost.
I just feel like it’s believing in your instincts or believing in yourself to do something crazy. That’s why it’s important to believe in yourself and trust yourself.
Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.
There is no substitute for hard work. Never give up. Never stop believing. Never stop fighting.
Being a great founder or early team member is a difficult dialectic – you have to be a bit overconfident, and a big ego isn’t always a bad thing. To change the world requires pushing really, really hard and believing you and your team know something others don’t.
I grew up believing I was just an ugly girl.
I found some peace in the Bible and in believing in Christ. To me it doesn’t really matter if it’s technically true. It just really helps me get through the day.
I don’t think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.
The most important thing is believing in yourself.
We all do films believing in them completely, but sometimes, the audiences like what we like, and other times, they don’t.
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
Ask me not, ‘Are you rightwing,’ but ask me ‘Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?’ Then, yeah, if being rightwing means believing Adam Smith was right, both in the ‘Wealth of Nations’ and the ‘Theory of Moral Sentiments,’ then I’m rightwing.
I never stopped believing in myself.
Self-esteem should not be confused with self-confidence. Self-confidence is believing in your competence and your ability to do something, whereas self-esteem is believing in your goodness.
When you’re in the head of the character, you feel less self-conscious. If I was just being me, I would feel so exposed and be like, ‘Why is there a huge camera in my face?’ But, when you’re believing in the person that you’re playing, you feel protected. It’s about being true to that person you’re playing.
Luck is believing you’re lucky.
Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.
The original release of ‘Star Wars’ was literally the first movie I remember seeing in a theater. Four years old was probably too young – I recall believing, for some time, that Darth Vader was a robot.
Believing in love doesn’t have an expiration date.
This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.
Out of profound gratitude for my adopted country, I can only say that I would like in this land to live and die, and while I live to help other people as much as possible, believing that only in service to other people can I possibly express my gratitude for all that America has done for me.
I’m going to try to keep believing that if you do good work, people will keep calling. Whenever that fails, I’ll just start going nuts on Twitter.
My mother – she’s a good old classic Northern European socialist – she’s totally wonderful, but she raised me up believing that rich people have stolen their money from poor people.
One of the things I learned early on was the system of believing: you have to believe in what you say. The camera is the arbiter of truth; it’s the all-seeing eye that can pick out discrepancies. You can’t lie to the camera. You must believe in what you’re saying, or the audience won’t believe you.
Lately I’ve been believing that music predates speech.
God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.
I am a believing and practising Muslim – but I am also a social democrat.
I will just keep working hard and keep believing in myself.
You can’t be a playwright without believing there’s an audience for adventurous work.
So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me.
I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.
I never stopped believing in myself. I had faith in my god.
I think it all circles back to me just trusting myself as a coach and believing in what I feel is the right thing to do.
The causes for my eating disorder ran along the usual lines: depression, an inability to express my rage, a desire to exert control, a desire to feel less, a desire to have my body express the things my voice could not. That, and I had gotten in the habit of believing it was better to take up less space.
I don’t want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world.
Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man’s universe is the earth?
There’s a big difference between where I came from and the NFL. Things like this don’t happen to people from there often. It just took a lot of hard work and dedication, staying on the right path, believing in myself, and having an inner drive.
It’s about showing the kids from your city that you are worth believing in. It’s about being the man your family prayed you’d be.
If we’re honest, we all have some measure of wrong believing in our lives. If you don’t believe this, all you need to do is ask yourself, ‘Have I often felt anxious, worried, or fearful that the worst would happen to me and my loved ones?’
The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.
It’s O.K. to fail. Just keep putting yourself there. Once I started saying that and really believing that, over time, it just gradually gave me confidence.
My mother was an awful cook, an exceptionally awful kosher cook, but I stayed kosher until I got to college, even though I’d long stopped believing in God.
When will the world start believing that the biggest religion of all is humanity?
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Im afraid that when it comes to the Christian life, and especially the issue of assurance, too many of us adopt the Barney Fife approach. That is, we let the enemy bully us into believing that were only safe as long as were wearing our Christian ‘uniform.’
What I love about believing in a living God is that I believe God is constantly revealing God’s self to us over time, and with each succeeding generation, we come a little closer to understanding the mind of God.
To get a child’s trust – you may know or not – is a very hard thing to do. They’re so used to not believing adults – because adults tell tales and lies all the time.
This power, this authority, Soviet power: they killed everybody who could make any resistance, who could explain his own way of thinking and who could follow his own way of thinking, of believing.
The conservative movement is about government playing its important yet limited role, and about not falling into the trap of believing that every problem has an exclusive government answer for it.
