#eli

I also visited several healing meetings... and became angry with what appeared to be the manipulation of people for the material gains of the faith healer... Dressing like sideshow barkers. Pushing people over and calling it the power of God. And money - they were always asking for more, leading people to believe that if they gave they would be healed..." - John Wimber ↗

— John Wimber

#religion #faith

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#being #beliefs #curiosity #formed #how

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#contribute #direction #feeling #important #insofar

The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#advertising #believable #greatest #greatest thing #in my opinion

O Allah! If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell, and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise. But if I worship You for Your Own sake, grudge me not Your everlasting Beauty. -- Ya Allah, jika aku menyembahMu karena takut neraka, bakarlah aku di dalamnya, dan jika aku menyembahMu karena mengharap surga, campakkanlah aku darinya. Tetapi, jika aku menyembahMu demi Engkau semata, Janganlah Engkau enggan memperlihatkan keindahan wajahMu Yang abadi padaku. ↗

— Rābiʻah al-ʻAdawīyah

#beauty

People that went to art house theatre have more options, I used to go, but now think any movie can be delivered in a red envelope three months after it's released so why not watch it on my flat screen in the comfort of home. ↗

— Edward Burns

#any #art #comfort #delivered #envelope

I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked. ↗

— George Burns

#believe #besides #booked #die #done

I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how? ↗

— John Burns

#call #events #how #however #i

Patriotism is the religion of hell. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#patriotism #religion

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. ↗