"In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty."

Belief, Beliefs, Cruelty, Kindness

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"In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty."

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"If I worship the fact that I don't worship anything, amongst other things what I'm worshipping is denial."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Possibly the most debilitating deception of all is to create a god of my own making, fool myself into believing that this limp god of mine is the true God, and then construct the entirety of my life on this flamboyantly fictional character. Possibly the most devastating realization of all is when the real God shows up, and in the showing up all of this come crashing down."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"A belief may be larger than a fact."

Vannevar Bush, American Scientist

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"REAL Leadership is the building of belief, that activates and aligns the full potential, for a meaningful cause."

Tony Dovale, South African Author

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"My mom used to say that sometimes just saying something aloud was enought to make it true. I wasn't so sure about that."

Alexandra Bracken, American Writer

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"This time should have been no different. But it was."

Alexandra Bracken, American Writer

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"I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist when considering Zeus, Apollo, Amon Ra, Mithras, Baal, Thor, Wotan, the Golden Calf and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I just go one god further."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

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"Everything changes as you move through three stages of awareness:first, that beliefs are the result of conditions;second, that beliefs are the cause of conditions;and third, that beliefs are themselves conditions."

Eric Micha'el Leventhal, American Poet

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"I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

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"It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us."

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"And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm."

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"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."

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"Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society."

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"Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing."

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"Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners."

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"The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's."

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"One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest."

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