#lievin

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. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#believing #chastity #christian #christian religion #deadly

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#arguing #believing #debating #lives #man

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child. ↗

— Anne Cassidy

#believing #child #crucial #forever #grand

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#age #always #believing #came #happened

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#humble #people #pious #problem #real

You're going to be entertained. But when you finish hearing me singing, you're going to want to keep going, and you're going to keep believing and that's the kind of artist I am. ↗

— Jacob Lusk

#artist #believing #entertained #finish #going

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying. ↗

— Martin Luther

#believing #dying #every #every man #his

I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#angels #be happy #believing #demons #even

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#days #different #different thing #famous #grew

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#believe #believing #cannot #help #immortality