#lievin

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. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#any #believing #christianity #could #creator

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley

#byron #example #existed #for example #friends

There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

#believing #day #every #every day #invest

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. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#believing #child #get #hard #hard thing

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#believing #comfort #darkness #despair #gives

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#don quixote #gentleman #him #mad #made

I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true. ↗

— Sam Sheppard

#believed #believing #bizarre #disoriented #dream

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it. ↗

— Peter Singer

#argument #because #believe #believing #despite

Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#believing #go #go away #i #reality

I don’t believe that," I said, and he raised his brow beneath his shaggy hair. "I never asked you to.” (Jessica) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#confidence #interaction #love #minutes-before-sunset #questioning