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The Bible is not interested in arguing, because if you state a thesis of belief you have already stated it's opposite; if you say, I believe in God, you have already suggested the possibility of not believing in him. [p.250]

The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.

The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.

The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.

The church is ever in peril-and never more so than now-of the disaster which must follow when she allows men of distinction in the sphere of human attainments, who are unregenerate or unspiritual, to dictate as to what her beliefs shall be.

The closer to the top, the more grew in me the belief that it might be fulfilled, which most dreaming.

The content of your thoughts and personal beliefs can be proven by a single indicator - your current results.

The core of the American set of beliefs has remained pretty constant.

The correctness of much testimonially based belief is no more than minimally creditable to the believer.

The cultural ban on having sex with your friends is an inevitable offshoot of a societal belief that the only acceptable reason to have sex is to lead to a monogamous marriagelike relationship.

The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged the delusion that candor, daring and shamelessness are substitutes for craft, that the exposed life is the same thing as an examined one.

The deeper your belief, the deeper your pockets.

The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield.

The devil only exists because of your belief in him; same goes for that other guy.

The difficulty with humanity's previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we've always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs.

The difficulty with pragmatic arguments for a religion is that truths do not always "work", and beliefs that "work" are by no means always true.

The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses.

The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset.

The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

The economic illusion is the belief that social justice is bad for economic growth.

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit.

The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.

The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them.

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.

The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.

The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.

The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.

The freethinker has the same right to discredit the beliefs of Christians that the Orthodox Christians enjoy in destroying reverence, respect, and confidence in Mohammedanism, Mormonism, Christian Science, or Atheism.

The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.

The fundamental delusion of human beings is the belief that we exist separately and independently from the rest of the universe.

The future is taking shape now in our own beliefs and in the courage of our leaders. Ideas and leadership - not natural or social "forces" - are the prime movers in human affairs.

The giving up of (a belief in) witchcraft is in effect the giving up of (a beilief in) the Bible.

The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.

The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.

The goal of faith isn't to take away your fears but to leverage those fears to create bolder belief. Faith leads you past your fears and reassures you of God's presence. And after a while, you begin to trust that God is going to lift you above the waves this time just like he did last time.

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief

The gospel of Jesus Christ is not limited to a system of beliefs; it is a plan of action.

The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.

The greatest obstacle is simply this: the belief that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. That is the addict's excuse.

The happy ending is our national belief.

The Guru and Disciple relationship is where the person has a 100% belief in the Guru and that way you put your trust in the Guru, that he's going to get you out of this mess. If you are a Christian, then Christ is your Guru, and they're all disciples of Christ.

The happy pagan is wrapped up in the belief that this world and the success it affords are the greatest pursuits in life. He or she feels no need for anything transcendent.