There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk everything for their beliefs.
Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.
Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.
Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.
Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens.
Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.
I'm not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band.
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.
We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter.
Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.