What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.

There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith.

They are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence as opposed to tradition authority revelation or faith they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

I simply don't believe in failure. In itself it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

For families across the UK who are income-poor but more than that whose lives are blighted by worklessness educational failure family breakdown problem debt and poor health as well as other problems giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.

Music and language are a vital element. We as actors and directors offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

I don't think people should have boundaries put on them by themselves or society or another gender because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.

Prudence is but experience which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

Our thoughts have an order not of themselves but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.

Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.

Ultimately it's possible that social media platforms will be designed as templates that the users themselves customize in terms of the best way to express their community and experience of life and brands will have to simply follow suit.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces which represent 30% of our musical experience.

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large except they be bounded in by experience.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life and often find ourselves without experience despite our years.

Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity wonder spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.