"More than just a moral issue, hope is a spiritual and even religious choice.Â Hope is not a feeling; it is a decision.Â And the decision for hope is based on what you believe at the deepest levels - what your most basic convictions are about the world and what the future holds - all based on your faith.Â You choose hope, not as a naive wish, but as a choice, with your eyes wide open to the reality of the world - just like the cynics who have not made the decision for hope."

-- Jim Wallis

#Spiritual Quotes #Religious Quotes #Believe Quotes

“The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the future is more than a whim of the gods and that men and women are not passive before nature.”

Source : Peter L. Bernstein (2012). “Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk”, p.11, John Wiley & Sons
“Believing right doctrine will no more save you, than doing good works will save you.”
“Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.”
“We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners, in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.”

Source : Romeo LeBlanc's Speech on the occasion of the presentation of the 1996 Native Role Models, archive.gg.ca. February 23, 1996.
“We cannot and should not stop people from migration. We have to give them a better life at home. Migration is a process, not a problem.”
“Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.”
“I've got life, I've got love, I've got faith & that's enough. We feel sorrow we feel pain, but there's sunshine after rain.”
“Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.”

Source : "Virginia Johnson obituary" by Suzie Hayman, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2013.

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