#lievin

I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away. ↗

— Melissa Manchester

#because #believing #could #i #i tried

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. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#believing #comment #constrained #duties #exposed

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#army #believing #control #could #haven

I always believe in the magical things ... if you don't believe, you can't receive. ↗

— Maximilian Brunsdon

#faith #magic #faith

I love everything about the world: how this life goes, GOOD & WRONG... I believe in things that you may nOt understand, I may cry but am nOt afraid!!! ↗

— Ashley M. Fierro

#life #life

In Gilead, the narrator's friend's son describes himself not as an atheist but in "state of categorical unbelief." He says, "I don't even believe God doesn't exist, if you see what I mean." I pointed this passage out to Mom and said it closely matched my own views--I just didn't think about religion. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

#believing-in-god #god #religion #religion

I promise you it doesn’t matter what you believe, how strongly you live your beliefs, or how true your beliefs are. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you are in the wrong. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks your beliefs are senseless or illogical. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you have it all wrong. In fact, there are a lot of people in this world who do. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#believing #judgmental #religion #right #wrong

I think one of the biggest reasons people have difficulty believing in God is because they don't understand Him.  You often hear doubting comments like, 'If there is a God then why this and why that and how could He allow...?' Perhaps if people were to invest true, sincere effort getting to know Him they'd discover a mindful Father molding his children for a higher purpose.  Because, like it or not, believe it or not, agree with Him or not, He is God. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#divinity #father #god #richelle #richelle-goodrich

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution. ↗

— David Joseph Schwartz

#believing #done #find #mind #really

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. ↗

— Aristotle

#appearance #apprehensive #believing #consider #devotion