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Change always brings fear before it brings faith. We always assume the worst before we look for the best. God interrupts our lives with something we've never seen, and rather than praise, we panic! We interpret the presence of a problem as the absence of God and scoot!
- Max Lucado
It's not what we don't know that hurts us," people say. "It's what we believe is true that isn't that does the damage." There
- Melody Beattie
If you ant to feel deeply, you have to think deeply. Too often we separate the two. We assume that if we want to feel deeply, then we need to sit around and, well, feel. But emotion built on emotion is empty. True emotion- emotion that is reliable and does not lead us astray- is always a response to reality, to truth.
- Joshua Harris
What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of business about which they know nothing and think they know a great deal.
- Florence Nightingale
Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
- Virginia Woolf
In this one man, the whole Church has been assumed by the Word.
- St. Augustine
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
- Stephen Covey
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date.
- Margaret Atwood
It was true, I took too much for granted; I trusted fate, back then.
- Margaret Atwood
When we assume that God's love is based on our behavior we've set ourselves up for a devastating fall.
- Sheila Walsh
The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
- Nancy Pearcey