Mother never said to me, 'Stay out of trouble.' She didn't have to!
There are people have grown up with implicit trust. Law enforcement, you name it. It's all gone. There's doubt about everything now. And this is not accidental.
Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning.
Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.
God's word is: 'He who strives never perishes.' I have implicit faith in that promise. Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith.
I always believed him. If Coach K said the sky will be purple when you get outside, I would have believed him.
It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.
People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.
There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.
They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.
For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.
Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.
Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?
The only thing my mother would say to me about my music - I'd say, "Mom, listen to this," and she'd say, "Junior, I know who you are."
When it comes to doing anything with Rajnikanth, one doesn't ask questions. One just does the needful.
It makes it so much easier to work with people who you can implicitly trust.
Whatever Boelcke told us was taken as Gospel!
The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud.
He who believes needs no explanation.
I've never been convinced that everything in a relationship needs to be talked about. Some things can't be fixed by a conversation
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
We said we would meet again but we made no arrangements. Not out of any bad feeling between us, but because I felt it had all been said, or not said but understood, and she probably did too. To know she was there was enough, and for her to know I was around was probably too. Sometimes that's all people ever really need. Just to know.
I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.
I'm not saying Donald Trump voters are a cult at all. I'm saying the attitude of implicit trust, people don't trust politicians like that, and yet a lot of people will profess blanket trust of Trump.
How did people do this - swallow all their fears and trust someone else so implicitly with every imperfection and fear they had.
