#eli

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? ↗

— Mary Douglas

#believe #encouraged #frustration #grand #jealousy

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#been #between #clash #history #human

I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't. ↗

— Harold Ford

#capitalist #i #i believe #i believe that #lose

I believe, based on the activities, and I am not an expert on terrorism by any stretch, but I believe that when they attacked the United States and they attacked New York and Washington, D.C., they thought they could defeat us. ↗

— Jim Walsh

#am #any #attacked #based #believe

We're nondenominational. I come from Northern Ireland, and we've had religious wars for years. I didn't want to create an illusion that my God is better than your God. So our show is a spiritual show, not a religious show. ↗

— Roma Downey

#come #create #god #had #i

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#how #impossible #improbable #matter #must

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life. ↗

— William A. Drake

#death #know #life #man #me

Fate was a reality, but it wasn’t a beautiful or angelic thing. It was a heart-wrenching nightmare. And we’d fallen blindly into it. We had no escape. It was happening, and it was up to me to guarantee our survival of it. (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#beautiful #choice #destiny #fate #fiction

We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure. ↗

— Peter Yarrow

#any #before #careful #deliberation #example

Our weaknesses may never go away but when we give them to God, His grace will turn them into something beautiful... ↗

— Heather Bixler

#grace #grace-of-god #inspirational-religious #pride #beauty