Don't Step Out of Character BY VIRGINIA SAL! ON A PLANE flying from Chicago to New York, my seat companion was a young girl who gave me a friendly smile as I sat beside her, but whose young face showed great sadness. Hesitantly, she told me she was o

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Growing in the Middle Ground by Anne Phipps I believe that my beliefs are changing. Nothing is positive. Perhaps Im in a stage of metamorphosis, which will one day have me emerging complete, sure of everything. Perhaps, I shall spend my life searchin

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A Shining Day Will Come by Saul K Padover A candid statement of faith becomes, for me, a concentrated spiritual autobiography. My fundamental beliefs are the products of three converging influences that have been silently at work within my personalit

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Roll Away the Stone I enjoy life because I am endlessly interested in people and their growth. My interest leads me to widen my knowledge of people, and this in turn compels me to believe in the common goodness of mankind. I believe that the normal

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What Are People Good For? By Ina Corinne Brown One's beliefs are revealed not so much in words or in formal creeds as in the assumptions on which one habitually acts and in the basic values by which all choices are tested. The cornerstone of my own v

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A Ball to Roll Around By Robert Allman I lost my sight when I was 4 years old by falling off a boxcar in a freight yard in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and landing on my head. Now, I am 32. I can vaguely remember the brightness of sunshine and what col

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What Does God Say to Me? by Dame Edith Evans I believe that good is stronger than evil. I have found that if applied with complete faith, it can obliterate evil. Knowledge like this gives one great strength in time of oppression or tyranny. I believe

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A Morning Prayer in a Little Church By Helen Hayes Once, years ago, I got into a dogfight. I was wheeling a baby carriage, my pet cocker spaniel trotting beside me. Without warning, three dogsan Afghan, a St. Bernard and a Dalmatianpounced on the coc

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We Cant Just Play with sports I believe that the greatest frontier of our ignorance lies in the relationship of man to man. I do not discount in the marvelous development in the world of things, nor do I devaluate the contributions of those who made

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What Does God Say to Me? by Dame Edith Evans I believe that good is stronger than evil. I have found that if applied with complete faith, it can obliterate evil. Knowledge like this gives one great strength in time of oppression or tyranny. I believe

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About Secrets and Falling Tiles By Carroll Binder We are all at the mercy of a falling tile, Julius Caesar reminds us in Thornton Wilders Ides of March. None of us knows at what hour something we may love may suffer some terrible blow by a force we c

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What Makes Me Feel Big by J. Frank Dobie My mind is big when I look at you and talk to you, Chief Eagle of the Pawnees said to George Bird Grinnell when, after years of absence, that noble writer appeared at his friend's tepee. It is very difficult i

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Causes Are People By Susan Parker Cobbs It has not been easy for me to meet this assignment. We have so many changing and transitory beliefs besides the ones most central to our lives. I hope that what I say wont sound either too simple or too pious.

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A Game of Cards By Norman Cousins Ever since I was old enough to read books on philosophy, I have been intrigued by the discussions on the nature of man. The philosophers have been debating for years about whether man is primarily good or primarily e

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by Dr. Fred Dow Fagg, JR By Spiritual Handholds on Life The view of the high Sierra Lake, nestled in the snow and rock slightly below the timber line, was beautiful from my vantage point some five hundred feet above its shimmering surface. I was anxi

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A Mask Was Stifling Me by Lucy Freeman I believe that everyone wants to love and be loved and that happiness stems from a facing and acceptance of self that allows you to give and receive love. Some think of love as a passionate, hungry, dramatic fee

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How to Give Your Money Away By Dr. Samuel Best Many years ago I met a man whose unique psychology helped me to shed a life of struggle and uneasiness for great happiness, for peace of mind, and for a measure of success I otherwise would not have atta

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Growth That Starts From Thinking It seems to me a very difficult thing to put into words the beliefs we hold and what they make you do in your life. I think I was fortunate because I grew up in a family where there was a very deep religious feeling.

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Discovery in a Thunderstorm By Dr. Nelson Glueck Many years ago I was on a bicycle trip through some exceedingly picturesque countryside. Suddenly, dark clouds piled up overhead and rain began to fall, but strange to relate, several hundred yards ahe

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Keep the Innocent Eye By Sir Hugh Casson When I Accepted the invitation to join in This I Believe, it was not-goodness knows-because I felt I had anything profound to contribute. I regarded it-selfishly, perhaps-as a chance to get my own ideas straig

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