I have a lot of beliefs... and I live by none of them...
True disciples are those who go beyond simply believing. They act out their belief.
Most people buy not because they believe, but because the sales person believes.
Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.” “But if you don't at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there's no point in living at all.
The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.
Conservatives cannot govern well for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class boeuf bourguignon: If you believe that what you are called upon to do is wrong, you are not likely to do it very well.
While we are each free to believe whatever we choose, we cannot do whatever we choose.
I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.
