#beliefs

I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#beliefs #believe #daily #daily life #i

Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs. ↗

— Charley Pride

#business #enforcing #many #organizations #religious

He's not a bad guy, John. It's human nature. He wanted it to be some mistake I made that he wouldn't have made, some flaw in me that he didn't share, so he could believe it wouldn't have happened to him. But it wasn't my fault. It was either blind, dumb, stupid luck from start to finish, in which case, we are all in the wrong business gentleman, or it was a God I cannot worship. ↗

— Mary Doria Russell

#religion #business

I'm not out to disturb anybody's faith. I happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system that has a dual deity and operates on a lunar schedule. It suits my needs. If you happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system that features a single masculine deity and operates on a solar schedule, fine. I don't give a fat damn. What matters is what you do, not who's name you do it in. ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#religion #tolerance #faith

You may not be able to change the world for the better, but the world is able to change you for the worst, don't give them the rock you stand on. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#change #individualism #opposition #rights #rock

We can either emphasize those aspects of our traditions, religious or secular, that speak of hatred, exclusion, and suspicion or work with those that stress the interdependence and equality of all human beings. The choice is yours. (22) ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#choice #equality #exclusion #hatred #inclusion

You know your testimony is strong when your roots are so deep that other people’s storms will never knock you over. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#faith #negativity #never-give-up #strong-women #testimony

They say faith is taking the first step when you can’t see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind it that would have taken you to the top floor. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#faith #people #wisdom #faith

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex. ↗

— John Osborne

#beliefs #careers #doing #first #give

Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there is a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions... on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone. He had believed in the stories for a long time, until the teachers at Indian school taught him not to believe in that kind of "nonsense". But they had been wrong. ↗

— Leslie Marmon Silko

#imagination #inspirational #no-boundaries #stories #imagination