B Quotes
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“By His grace, God has another chance for you.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“By His grace let it be that 'sound doctrine' is, in itself, not a burden but a privilege to the Christian life. Let it be a form of worship. It is my belief that God has His ways of entering hearts and revealing Himself to people of the world who, perhaps by no fault of their own, have little to no access to doctrine regarding His character and nature and what He is and has been about; but as a people who claim to be His children, ones saved by grace through faith, would it not be hypocritical to downplay a deeper, more intimate understanding of the Lord of our lives in heart, soul, and mind? Where we display shallow relationships, where we salute an arrogant and willful ignorance of the God we serve and the Christ we represent, it is understandable that truth seekers will turn elsewhere for truth. It is with humility, honesty, and respect that every non-nominal Christian is a theologian and an apologist to some degree, to their ability God has gifted.”
“By His gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging His condition for ours revealed the power that elevates man to God through his love for God and brings God down to man because of His love for man. By this blessed inversion, man is made God by divinization and God is made man by hominization. For the Word of God and God wills always and in all things to accomplish the mystery of His embodiment.”
“By His life, death, and resurrection, our Savior has conquered our enemies, and by His Spirit He has granted us to share in the victory.”
“By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.”
Source: Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims
“By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard it in an echo of the infuriated cries within him.”
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.”
“By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.”
“By his own will Christ was dependent on Mary during Advent: he was absolutely helpless; he could go nowhere but where she chose to take him; he could not speak; her breathing was his breath; his heart beat in the beating of her heart.... In the seasons of our Advent - waking, working, eating, sleeping, being - each breath is a breathing of Christ into the world.”
Source: A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader
“By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.”
“By His Resurrection, Christ conquered sin and death, destroyed Satan's dark kingdom, freed the enslaved human race and broke the seal on the greatest mysteries of God and man.”
“By his sacrifice he has made way for grace to run like a river into the world.”
Source: Prayer
“By His trials, God means to purify us, to take away all our self-confidence, and our trust in each other, and bring us into implicit, humble trust in Himself.”
Source: Sermons for the new life
“By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.”
Source: On Teaching and Writing Fiction
“By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.”
“By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own ego. The exclusiveness of this adherence is the only power which can overcome evil.”
Source: The Cost of Discipleship
“By holding an open-focus awareness, you create a larger mental “container” for your thoughts to pass through.”
Source: Practical Meditation for Beginners: 10 Days to a Happier, Calmer You
“By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding technological progress and productivity growth.”
“By holding out to the people a new right—the right to vote—it becomes possible set on them a radically new duty, a duty that no peasant population would have so readily accepted: the duty to wage war. This was always the justification of the nobility's privilege: they ruled because they fought, and they fought because they ruled.”
“By holding the intention of peace towards water, by thinking, speaking and acting with the intention of peace towards water, water can and will bring peace, to our bodies and to the world”
“By holding to the first woman, the first black, the first homosexual, the first transgender, the first native American, the first whatever, there is also something else more hideous that is woven into this intricate web of deceit, and that is the built-in excuse to why they might or will fail. It's because America is unjust. When you have the first woman to do something, the media questions, "Why haven't there been more?" Well, America is unfair, unjust, bigoted, sexist, and misogynistic.”
“By honest I don't mean that you only tell what's true. But you make clear the entire situation. You make clear all the information that is required for somebody else who is intelligent to make up their mind.”
“By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.”
“By honing your presence in each of your social encounters, you may be able to convey to them that their inputs and necessities matter. This may prompt them to open up further and confide more things to you, and you may even receive more favors that can end up improving your own condition.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“By honoring and responding to your natural and essential requirements for sleep, food, water and movement, you will rise out of the realm of survival into the world of fulfillment.”
Source: A Woman's Truth: A Life Truly Worth Living
“By honoring the lives of those we admire, we make our own values known.”
“By honouring my energy, I forge a harmonious bond, where each act of self-care is mirrored by the universe’s gentle embrace.”
Source: Death: Light of Life and the Shadow of Death
“By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember”
Source: The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation
“By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“By hook or by crook, we're going to make sure that when I leave this office, that the country is more prosperous, more people have opportunity, kids have a better education, we're more competitive, climate change is being taken more seriously than it was.Those are going to be the measures by which I look back and say whether I've been successful as president.”
“By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.”
Source: Leviathan, Parts I and II
“By how much unexpected, by so much
We must awake endeavour for defence;
For courage mounteth with occasion.”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“By human standards, I know far more than the dogs do. But Luke and June can do what I cannot. In a millisecond, forty feet from just encountered range Rambouillets the dogs see, big as a Wall Drug bill board, which sheep is the leader. They immediately understand the complex social order in this particular miniflock. they know whether the sheep are ready to fight, split up, or break for the tall timber, because the sheep tell them what they mean to do. For the sake of that instant, for that millisecond, that's why the Mister and Missus have put so many miles beneath their paws. Luke and June have developed an all-sheep, all-breed, all-terrain method that doesn't give them an edge over dogs who've been working these sheep on this terrain all their lives, but does help them transmute the novel into the manageable”
Source: Mr. and Mrs. Dog: Our Travels, Trials, Adventures, and Epiphanies
“By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth.”
“By hurting someone you hurt yourself and by loving someone you love yourself.”
Source: Revolution Indomable
“By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.”
“By identifying with the powerful, the disempowered achieve a measure of safety, at least for a moment. By doing the bidding of those in power, they become a necessary part of the system, useful so long as they serve to contain the stirrings and strivings of the oppressed. By making the rules and values of their oppressor their own, they separate themselves from the rest of their group and, temporarily at least, assuage the pain of their stigmatized status.”
Source: Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?
“By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets.”
“By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.”
“By imagining ourselves as rational beings, we welcome vulnerable to malformed affections and habits. When we deny the reality of our social modes of reasoning, we become caught up in mindless swarms: trying to become a community of rational thinkers, we become a swarm of atomized, emoters.”
Source: Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry into the News
“By imagining some future evil, fear draws us in on ourselves so that we extend ourselves to fewer things. This, intern, can hinder Christian discipleship, which calls us not to contract, but to expand.”
Source: Following Jesus in a Culture of Fear: Choosing Trust over Safety in an Anxious Age
“By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West, the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral outlook: for the imitation of outward appearance leads, by degrees, to a corresponding assimilation of the world-view responsible for that appearance.”
“By imitation you only promote a person you're imitating.”
“By implementing scaffolded learning activities, educators create a supportive environment where students can gradually build their skills and knowledge, motivation and sense of competence to tackle increasingly challenging tasks.”
“By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.”
“By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.”
“By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore.”
“By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal short-sellers have been instrumental in helping expose firms like Enron and WorldCom.”
“By including women in decision-making, city governments will be in a better position to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the safety of their residents, especially women and girls.”