#believe

There is perhaps some hope to be derived from the fact that in most instances where an attempt to realize an ideal society gave birth to the ugliness and violence of a prolonged active mass movement the experiment was made on a vast scale and with a heterogeneous population. Such was the case in the rise of Christianity and Islam, and in the French, Russian and Nazi revolutions. The promising communal settlements in the small state of Israel and the successful programs of socialization in the small Scandinavian states indicate perhaps that when the attempt to realize an ideal society is undertaken by a small nation with a more or less homogeneous population it can proceed and succeed in an atmosphere which is neither hectic nor coercive. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#the-true-believer #experience

People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#because #believe #dissent #everyone #fear

Consider everyone trustworthy until they prove otherwise. ↗

— Ram Mohan

#distrust #emotion #faith #feeling #honesty

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#despair #faith #jung #psychology #faith

Sometimes the hardest things to believe are the only things worth believing at al. ↗

— E.J. Patten

#faithfulness #faith

Hope and faith goes hand-in-hand, because without hope there is no faith. The same goes with want and needs, without any wants, there no need to have a need ↗

— Temitope Owosela

#faith #hope #needs #success #wants

I want to believe there's a God. Because I sure as hell know there's a devil. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#devil #faith #god #faith

Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of science. It is a defiant and blasphemous faith, not unlike that held by the men who set out to build a "city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven" and who believed that "nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#progress #progressivism #the-true-believer #faith

Believers are achievers, therefore believe and achieve! • Believe that you are responsible for your own accomplishments God deposited in you! • Believe that success is not luck; it is the result a deliberate effort to do a hard work! • Believe that prayer works through faith and action! • Believe that great people took great steps. Weak people took weak steps! • Believe that you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you! ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#achievements #achievers #believe #believe-and-achieve #believe-in-yourself

Tragically, many people have this faithless, wishy-washy mindset, which causes them to lose the battle in their minds before they ever fight it in the world. ↗

— Craig Groeschel

#christianity #faith #faith