"I also knew that if people have a position on something and you try to argue them into changing it, youâ€™re going to strengthen that position. If you want to change peopleâ€™s ideas, you shouldnâ€™t try to convince them intellectually. What you need to do is get them into a situation where theyâ€™ll have to act on ideas not argue about them."

-- Myles Horton

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Everything in my world was about him. What a silly thing to expect.”
“You have the Savior of the world on your side. If you seek His help and follow His directions, how can you fail?”
“I'm more relaxed when I can hear the beat clearly all the time I'm singing.”
“A Universalist, your heart cannot but dilate, and your affections widen, until the divine expansion, like the ambient atmosphere, embraces every form, which is acted upon by an immortal spirit.”
“Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world, as a language develops and acquires names for color, the colors always enter in the same order. The most primitive are black and white. Then red. Then either green or yellow.”
“Where You are, Lord I am free, holiness is Christ in me.”

Source : FaceBook post by Matt Maher from May 14, 2013
“I like to go out there looking like a strong woman, because I am strong. But I am also a woman who goes through all kinds of problems and highs and lows.”
“For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.”

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