A Quotes
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“As our culture has become increasingly hostile to Christianity, it has become correspondingly open to wickedness.”
Source: Enough is Enough: A Call to Christian Involvement
“As our dreams make evident, the psyche's own language is that of image, and not idea.”
“As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level of sophistication to compete with the rest of the world, we're going to need every Australian on board pulling their weight, rejoining the workforce, gaining new skills. Writing off individuals and communities suffering from poverty just creates a dead weight for our economy to drag along.”
“As our environment and level of aptitude continuously changes, we must rise to the occasion to meet these changes.”
“As our eyes age, they have a tougher and tougher time adjusting to rapid changes in lighting, and we need to be aware of this.”
“As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.”
Source: The Favourite Game
“As our eyes meet, I get a kind of deja vu, but instead of feeling like I'm repeating something in the past, it feels like I'm experiencing something that will happen in my future...It's like knowing all the words to a song but still finding them beautiful and surprising.”
Source: The Sun Is Also a Star
“As our Father makes many a flower to bloom unseen in the lonely desert, [let us] do all that we can do, as under God's eye, though no other eye ever take note of it.”
“As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look.”
Source: Things Fall Apart
“As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.”
Source: A New Birth of Freedom: Vision for America
“As our flame matches. Our life together flashes. Stars. dust to ashes - Right Before Me”
Source: Coming Home
“As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.”
“As our heart soars, we fly with it! Let love take you places!”
“As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
“As our heroes press on down the tunnel, the golden light grows ever brighter with every corner they turn. What can be its source? Whence comes this beauteous luminescence? What treasure can it betoken? And most importantly of all, who writes this stuff? I mean, really, 'beauteous luminescence'?”
Source: The Treacle People: Still Sticky
“As our inclinations, so our opinions.”
“As our initial click fraud research study showed last year, there is an obvious problem in the online advertising world. The challenge is that I'm not sure anyone really knows the extent of the click fraud problem.”
“As our kids are drawn into, you know, Facebook and twittering and having their own cell phone and iPod and all those things , all of those things will take up as much time as you give them. What our goal is is to help them find that natural balance so that the things of our culture don't just steal their hearts and their minds and just consume their lives.”
“As our knowledge is converted to wisdom, the door to opportunity is unlocked.”
“As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook physical gesturing as the primary means of communication for all human beings except Italians. (Earth (The Book), p. 36)”
“As our leader Saddam Hussein said, 'God is grilling their stomachs in hell.'”
“As our life is our main provisional value, ‘taking the time’ to interpret our experiences is a momentous choice. Time, life and choice outline a trilogy that can solve and unite so as to vanquish the powerlessness which we might face on our path. (Could time be patient?)”
“As our listeners will know, unless they've taken refuge at the bottom of a garden pond or somewhere similar, You-Know-Who's strategy of remaining in the shadows is creating a nice little climate of panic.”
“As our little corner of the world prepares for a lengthy winter slumber, many of our animals are already snug in their deep dark burrows sleeping peacefully, while those of us not destined to hibernate remain awake throughout the long dark months that lie ahead.”
Source: Lanark County Christmas
“As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children's. We forget and thus they forget that there is nothing more important than the present moment. We forget and thus they forget to relax, to find spiritual solitude, to let go of the past, to quiet ambition, to fully enjoy the eating of a strawberry, the scent of a rose, the touch of a hand on a cheek...”
Source: The Wonder of Boys
“As our mother-earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm in the perishable framework of organic nature.”
“As our net worth falls, so does our self-worth. Ironically, it's when we don't have it that we most feel we have to flaunt it.”
“As our own peace of mind grows, so the atmosphere around us becomes more peaceful.”
“As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.”
Source: Voices from the Sky
“As our parents often say, share your God-given gifts and talents to help others”
“As our planet faces seemingly insurmountable odds, we must find new ways to survive and thrive together.”
“As our planet takes action to cast out its manmade poisons and heal its man-caused wounds, many human inhabitants will no doubt give way to fear. Many will cling to seemingly powerful we're-God's-chosen-people religions, hoping that by so doing they will be saved from the wrath of a Vengeful God (not recognizing that the approaching "vengeance" will in reality be man's own actions coming back at him - and not recognizing that the Infinite Universal Power is far more than the narrow-minded gatekeeper of an exclusive Spiritual Country Club).”
“As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“As Our Predecessors have many times repeated, let no man think that he may for any reason whatsoever join the Masonic sect, if he values his Catholic name and his eternal salvation as he ought to value them. Let no one be deceived by a pretense of honesty. It may seem to some that Freemasons demand nothing that is openly contrary to religion and morality; but, as the whole principle and object of the sect lies in what is vicious and criminal, to join with these men or in any way to help them cannot be lawful”
Source: A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII
“As our president bears no resemblance to a king so we shall see the Senate has no similitude to nobles. First, not being hereditary, their collective knowledge, wisdom, and virtue are not precarious. For by these qualities alone are they to obtain their offices, and they will have none of the peculiar qualities and vices of those men who possess power merely because their father held it before them.”
“As our self-interests differ, so do our feelings.”
“As our ship tumbled, free-falling through the eye of a saltwater cyclone, the nine giant maidens spiraled around us, weaving in and out of the tempest so they appeared to drown over and over again. Their faces contorted in anger and glee.
Their long hair lashed us with icy spray. Each time they emerged, they wailed and shrieked, but it wasn’t just random noise. Their screams had a tonal quality, like a chorus of whale songs played through heavy feedback. I even caught snippets of lyrics: boiling mead...wave daughters...death for you! It reminded me of the first time Halfborn Gunderson played Norwegian black metal for me.
After a few bars, it dawned on me...Oh, wait. That’s supposed to be music!”
Source: The Ship of the Dead
“As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.”
“As our society has become more casual, the line between a person’s personal life and professional life has become blurred, especially with the advent of social media. Personal information, your manners (or lack thereof), opinions, and pictures of your private life are available for all the world to see. HR directors, recruiters, and potential employers will often ascertain a person’s manners and moral compass from their online presence.”
Source: The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact
“As our thought is opened and we behold the image of eternity within ourselves, we are changed by this image into a newness of life.”
Source: The Hidden Power of the Bible
“As our understanding of obedience deepens, we recognize the essential role of agency.”
“As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways. Think about it - most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama's 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values - hope and change.”
“As our various electronic devices gain more and more sensory awareness, we open up the potential for entirely new forms of interaction. Not just new interfaces - tapping and shaking and whatnot - but a shift in presence.”
“As our voices rise in protest, the NSA monitors your every phone call. if you have a cell phone, you are under surveillance. I believe what you do on your cell phone is none of their damn business.”
“As our world becomes increasingly interconnected, we need to find better solutions that will include everyone in today's opportunities. (197)”
“As our world becomes smaller, through a growing common culture, the true test of community will be our tolerance for our most profound differences and love for the most challenging among us.”
Source: A Monk in the World: Cultivating a Spiritual Life
“As Ouspensky says, it sometimes seems that the Perennial Tradition is reluctant to help seekers, but it only seems that way because, as Meister Eckhart explained in his writings, “If you haven’t the truth of which we are speaking in yourselves, you cannot understand me.” It’s not a matter of the Perennial Tradition making things deliberately arcane; it’s simply the fact that unless you have made a truth a part of your being you have no capability of understanding it.”
Source: Perennial Tradition: Overview of the Secret Heritage, the Single Stream of Initiatory Teaching Flowing Through All the Great Schools of Mys
“As outsiders looking in, my readers and I must reform how we think so we may open ourselves to new forms of knowledge.”
“As ovelhas tresmalhadas se não andam no caminho de Deus, o diabo leva.”
Source: Caminhando com os Mortos
“As oxygen is to the blood, so the Holy Spirit is to our spiritual lives.”
Source: My Prayer Chair