Alfred Billings Street Quotes
Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness.
Quotes to Explore
-
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
-
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
-
I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.
-
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
-
When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
-
My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.
-
Let's hope you feel better now.
-
I hope to bring people to God with my songs.
-
Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
-
For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.
-
When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.
-
I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
-
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
-
Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
-
I don't want to think about what I'm doing in 20 years. All I want is I want to be happy, and I hope my family are healthy. And that's all, really.
-
My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian women have been left out of politics.
-
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
-
America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.
-
I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.
-
A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.
-
Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.
-
On the phone with his wife when the plane he was on stopped after hitting a deer.
-
Let's say I'm on the policy wonk end of the spectrum. As much as I can dive into a briefing book and really work to master various subjects that come before my desk, I'm still not an expert on a huge amount of the stuff that we work on.
-
Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness.
