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A declaration of faith
I believe I believe in believing I believe thats next to loving, believing his wisest and most god like I believe that the good of the believing lies in the believing not in the belief I believe that your belief is none of my business
I believe that the belief of today may be unbelievable tomorrow and need not feel ashamed either
I believe that depth of belief without breadth is more desirable than breadth without depth
I believe that the absolute belief of the child may and should accompany of the absolute knowledge of the man
I believe that the faith and fact are not so foes but friends when each recognizes and respects the province of the other
I believe however that a blind belief is better than no belief
I believe that so long as a mans belief satisfies him it is an unkindness to shake it whether by reform pessimism or proselytism
I believe that the only way to justify a belief is to keep silent concerning it and the only way to prove it is to live it
I believe that belief in self is the highest form of belief and the rest
I believe in myself
I believe in you
I believe in everybody and everything
I believe and the undiminishable purity sweetness and strength and strength of the human soul
I believe in the fatherhood motherhood and babyhood of God
I believe in the gentleness of Justice and the farsightedness of fate
I believe in an all pervasive omniscient omnipotent competent to deify any soul that trusts its
I believe in the wisdom that masters the intricacies of occult and the great wisdom that forgets them
I believe in miracles that cease to be miracles when one knows the law
I believe in the Bible as the repository of the most and the best beliefs
I believe in Jesus as his own design savior and again me as mine
I believe in the unchurch and unconfined Christs resident potential in every incarnate soul
I believe in a religion of kindness thoughtfulness courage cheerfulness and brotherly love
I believe in the charity never called by that name
I believe it and the dignity of labor the joy of work the sweetness of rest and the satisfaction of symmetry
I believe in the sacredness of the human body and I shutter at the blasphemy that would such that would hide it bind it abuse it misrepresent it or call it impure
I believe in the majesty beauty divinity and ecstasy of sex
I believe in a mans brotherhood and a womans motherhood
I believe in the home where love it is and no other
I believe in the divorce where love is not an no other
I believe in the avowed sinner more than it and the avowed saint
I believe in the penalty that none save nature inflicts
I believe in suffering as a refining process and again the exquisite anguish of soul travail
I believe in the immortality of my soul therefore it matters not whether my name become immortal
I believe in both the dreams of the idealist and the deeds of the materialist impression heavenward with expression earth word
I believe in the hope that every man has for himself my hope being worldwide and eternity long
I believe in a consciousness that transcends the mortal emerging from the midst of time place person and circumstance tell it melts clear and peer into the effulgence of the most high
I believe that the world needs me
I believe that the world will reward me richly when I deserve recompense
I believe that my poverty is nobodys fault but my own the therefore am I not a socialist
I believe that my neighbor treats me as I treat him or a little better for I hold no grudge against anybody
I believe that my expression of belief helps me most I am not concerned if nobody listens
I believe that the only way I can be faithful to you is to be faithful to myself
I believe that my only duty is to know and follow my desire
I believe that the infinite is none too large for me to aspire to
I believe that countless eons have heaped themselves that I a may lord them all that I do
I believe that reform is as unwise as it is unavailing
I believe that polemics are futile if not fatal
I believe that criticism is a confession of impotence since the critic is never the creator
I believe that codes of conduct or for cowards only
I believe that law breakers are near right then lawmakers
I believe that the crimes against criminals of the crew list of all
I believe that the only sin is shutting ones eyes to the light in ones own soul
I believe that consistency is either lethargy or hypocrisy
I believe that instinct is infallible so far as not yet paralyzed by civilization
I believe that every man his party animal and part angel if hed be a man he is neither a ashamed of the one more afraid of the other
I believe that life is more valuable than learning and the day labor a truer counselor then the college professor
I believe that there is no arrogance so haughty and so curl as the pride of mentality
I believe that in general the more one knows the more one misunderstand
I believe that truth is indivisible and illimitable being neither scientific religious philosophical commercial or sentimental
I believe that science and religion were born sisters but that superstition has parted them for the time being
I believe that in scientific Parenthood lies the foundation of the race but science must not dictate to love
I believe that humanity is constantly improving perhaps and a million Ages it may be presentable
I believe that the only Devil is the dread of our weaker mortality and the only hell that sense of suffocation attending an earth aura
I believe that heaven is here and now in the hearts of the heavily minded and the that greater splendors transcending human imagination await us on the other side
i believe that death is an angel of light into a brighter palace the possibility and if our vision were fine enough we could always catch a glimpse of glory as the portal swings open
I believe that the millennium comes to each sold individually marking the close of this earth school of experience and the commencement day in the larger sphere
I believe that these beliefs and what every truer may ensue will forever pale into nothingness beside the one thing, I know
That love alone suffice.
Approximate Word count = 1141
Approximate Pages = 4.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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