#me

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. ↗

— Helen Keller

#achievement #confidence #done #faith #hope

My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that your fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand... I think she's right. I was a fundamentalist not because of the beliefs I held but because of how I held them: with a death grip. It would take God himself to finally pry them out of my hands. (p.17-18) ↗

— Rachel Held Evans

#fundamentalism #god #death

When you manage people, you must first convince them they need managing. So you create the problems and then let the people cry for solutions. ↗

— Barbara Marciniak

#family

Information is strength without coordination. We become a danger mostly to ourselves when we have it. Understanding is the ability to coordinate that raw information in meaningful ways. Understanding creates a certain enthusiasm. We can direct our knowledge toward potentially useful ends--but we may also be a danger to others. Wisdom, however, is knowing how, when, and why we use our understanding; wisdom is settling into our understanding without being too enamored by it. ↗

— Shane Hipps

#technology #faith

I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie. ↗

— Ken Gire

#film #lies #media #truth #faith

All was there—the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#mein-kampf #faith

For in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male or female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. ↗

— Anonymous

#faith

Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life? ↗

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

#faith #meaning-of-life #orthodoxy #spirituality #faith

Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man? ↗

— Howard Zinn

#equality #faith #government #history #equality

Women do not need a knight in shining armor or a Prince Charming to come to their rescue. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#power #women-s-strength #faith