O Quotes
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“Our choices can alter the details. That’s how we rebel against destiny. - Loki”
Source: Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard Series Collection 2 Books Set By Rick Riordan
“Our choices define who we are when we make them. Therefore, we always have the power to change and choose who we are.”
“Our choices determine our commitment.”
“Our choices determine our destiny”
Source: Four Things Women Want from a Man
“Our choices determine our future”
“Our choices in great music and great clothing don’t define us as Mods. The fact that we choose great music and great clothing does.”
“Our choices in life are made according to our sense of our own worth.”
“Our choices now - this week, this month, this year - are very sticky. Once made, their effects never go away. Rather, those choices about how we think and what we do are a constant presence. Every thought, every action is a choice, and even now the choices you have made in your life thus far are shifting and combining in order to create who you really are. Therefore, simple logic says that by paying careful attention to our choices from this point forward, we can create a future we choose instead of a future that 'happens.”
Source: The Noticer Returns: Sometimes You Find Perspective, and Sometimes Perspective Finds You
“Our choices reflect the kind of person we are!”
Source: Can I have it all?
“Our choices reveal what’s tucked away in our conscience as well as what’s been thrown away.”
“Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place.”
“Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own idea of greatness is illusory, and if we pay too much attention to it we will be lured out of the peace and stability of the being God gave us, and seek to live in a myth we have created for ourselves. And when we are truly ourselves we lose most of the futile self-consciousness that keeps us constantly comparing ourselves with others in order to see how big we are.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on reason. When this is ignored, we adopt an Enlightenment optimism about the role of a supposedly neutral reason in the recognition of truth.”
Source: Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
“Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is something extrinsic.”
“Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.”
“Our Christian identity is belonging to a people: the Church. Without the Church we are not Christians.”
“Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so.”
Source: The Message of Galatians
“Our Christian Life is not complete without Personal Prayer Life with God.”
“Our Christian witness is authentic when it is faithful and unconditional.”
“Our chronic discomfort with ambiguity - which, ironically, is critical to both our creativity and the richness of our lives - leads us to lock down safe, comfortable, familiar interpretations, even if they are only partial representations of or fully disconnected from reality.”
“Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.”
“Our churches and pulpit are key to refocusing and redirecting our nation.”
“Our churches are filled with Christians who are idling in intellectual neutral. As Christians, their minds are going to waste. One result of this is an immature, superficial faith. People who simply ride the roller coaster of emotional experience are cheating themselves out of a deeper and richer Christian faith by neglecting the intellectual side of that faith.”
“Our churches are full of people during work hours, morning, noon, evening, praying instead of being in the factories, libraries, laboratories, facilitating economic growth”
“Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.”
Source: Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?
“Our circumstance at birth is that we are placed on a planet with no prior choice and appointed sensation and awareness—and then nothing after it. There won’t be an opportunity to look back or to be ashamed. What to do? Walk the rock and see more of the earth? Fill our playtime with the current inventions? No, I want to go toward other people. Other moving humans. No technology or machine in the world could match the pricelessness of life. It’s a universally precious. It can’t be saved and so has the most value.”
Source: A Happy Ghost
“Our circumstances are the means God uses to exhibit just how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure His Son is.”
Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers
“Our circumstances might be abject, we might not think we can survive for one more day enslaved to illness, but God says, "My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
Source: Finding Purpose: Rediscovering Meaning in a Life with Chronic Illness
“Our circumstances will continually change. It is out of our control. It is more important to change our attitude, which we have control of.”
“Our cities have become unaffordable to our poorest families, and this problem is leaving a deep and jagged scar on our next generation.”
Source: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“Our cities have constructed elaborate expressways and elevated skyways, and white Americans speed from suburb to inner city through vast pockets of black deprivation without ever getting a glimpse of the suffering and misery in their midst.
But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life outside. Their television sets bombard them day by day with the opulence of the larger society. From behind the ghetto walls they see glistening towers of glass and steel springing up almost overnight. They hear jet liners speeding over their heads at six hundred miles an hour. They hear of satellites streaking through outer space and revealing details of the moon.
Then they begin to think of their own conditions. They know that they are always given the hardest, ugliest, most menial work to do. They look at these impressive buildings under construction and realize that almost certainly they cannot get those well-paying construction jobs, because building trade unions reserve them for whites only. They know that people who built the bridges, the mansions and docks of the South could build modern buildings if they were only given a chance for apprenticeship training. They realize that it is hard, raw discrimination that shuts them out. It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life.”
“Our cities need to change, fast. Tactical Urbanism is a guided tour of solutions created when local people decide they can't wait for politics to catch up before they improve their neighborhoods. This weathervane book deserves a place on any urbanist's bookshelf.”
“Our cities with their swollen populations and cliff dwelling high-rise buildings are breeding places for loneliness. Neighborhoods crumble under the housing development bulldozers and families scatter in pursuit of jobs and professions everywhere. In a world of wheels, old and comfortable groupings of people have disappeared.”
“Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.”
“Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!”
“Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service.”
Source: Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids
“Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. IX (in 12 Volumes)
“Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.”
“Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS.”
Source: Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings
“Our citizenship is in eternity; history is our temporary residence.”
Source: McManus 2-in-1 (Soul Cravings, Barbarian Way)
“Our city teems with sons who have escaped their fathers in a similar way. Usually, this remains obscure. The Oedipal relationship is reduced to a malaise between individuals. The loss of esteem is inevitable, but people get along with one another.
Moreover, I am troubled less by my background than by the respect that my old man demands on the basis of his paternity. He cites a credit that is not his due: the fact that fathers, rulers, professors once lived and deserved this name. Nowadays, that is nothing but a rumor.
When he swaggers, I sometimes feel like reminding him of the map room and the tricks he harassed my mother with. She sheltered me from him in her cavern just as Rhea shielded her Zeus against the gluttonous Cronus.
Naturally, I avoid making this chess move; I am aware, here too, of imperfection, which torments me. There are truths that we must hush if we are to live together; but you cannot knock over the chessboard.
I owe my restraint partly to Bruno, whose course also covers magical and even practical conduct. He said: "If the words are about to flee your lips, then reach toward the left side of your chest for your wallet. You will then save your joke; it will accrue to your capital. You will feel your heart."
That is how I act with my dad. At such times, I am even overcome with benevolence. This is also my advice to Vigo when he wants to parry hateful criticism by giving tit for tat.”
Source: Eumeswil
“Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.”
“Our civil position should not depend on the tests and problems we go through”
“Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...”
Source: Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
“Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.”
Source: Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait
“Our civilisation being what it is, you've got to spent eight hours out of every twenty-four as a mixture between an imbecile and a sewing machine. It's very disagreeable, I know. It's humiliating and disgusting. But there you are. You've got to do it, otherwise the whole fabric of our world will fall to bits and we'll starve. Do the job then, idiotically and mechanically; and spend your leisure hours in being a real complete man or woman.”
Source: point counter point
“Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness.”
Source: The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.”
“Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it.”
“Our civilization cannot survive materially unless it is redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the Spirit of Christ, and being made free and happy by practices which spring out of that spirit. Only thus can discontent be driven out and all shadows lifted from the road ahead.”
Source: The messages and papers of Woodrow Wilson