O Quotes
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“Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.”
“Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.”
“Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.”
“Our problem is not that we're fallen; our problem is we haven't become human yet. The question is, what can make us human, so that we can give life away and give love away and not be grasping after trying to protect our own lives all the time? That's the way I see the Jesus story, and I think it's a powerful and profound story.”
“Our problem is not the government,other people,the rich or the economy this we can't control but we sure can control our own minds. We perish for lack of knowledge so start learning & keep learning.Remember even what you know is useless if not used.”
“Our problem is not the lack of knowing; it is the lack of doing. Most people know far more than they think they do”
“Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.”
Source: Strength to Love
“Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.”
Source: The Recovery of Confidence
“Our problem is not to submit to the differences but to overcome them.”
“Our problem is not too little time, but making better use of the time we have. Each of us has as much time as anyone else.”
Source: Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer
“Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.”
“Our problem is that the climate crisis hatched in our laps at a moment in history when political and social conditions were uniquely hostile to a problem of this nature and magnitude-that moment being the tail end of the go-go '80s, the blastoff point for the crusade to spread deregulated capitalism around the world. Climate change is a collective problem demanding collective action the likes of which humanity has never actually accomplished. Yet it entered mainstream consciousness in the midst of an ideological war being waged on the very idea of the collective sphere.”
“Our problem is that we are in the Word but not under the Word.”
“Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying, we come "underneath," where we calmly and deliberately surrender control and become incompetent.”
Source: Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home
“Our problem is that we don't have enough people in America, including black people, who are progressive and willing to sacrifice their popularity in order to tell the truth.”
“Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.”
“Our problem is that we make the mistake of comparing ourselves to other people. You are not inferior or superior to any human being...You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities. You are 'number one' when you do the best you can with what you have.”
“Our problem is that we often expect instantaneous solutions to such challenges, forgetting that frequently the heavenly virtue of patience is required.”
“Our problem is that when you lose the touchstone, which is humanity, then when you have something like humans dying, it needs to feel profound.”
“Our problem is this: we usually discover him within some denominational or Christian ghetto. We meet him in a province and, having caught some little view, we paint him in smaller strokes. The Lion of Judah is reduced to something kittenish because our understanding cannot, at first, write larger definitions.”
Source: The Table of Inwardness
“Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.”
“Our problem is within ourselves. We have found the means to blow the world physically apart. Spiritually, we have yet to find the means to put together the world's broken pieces.”
“Our problem isn't that the universe isn't on our side; the problem is that too many of us numb these days, not awake to the game, or to the power of the universe that flows through our psychic veins. Some of us need to stop whining. It's not like we're the first generation who faced serious challenges. But others rose to the occasion, and we need to too.”
“Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.”
Source: The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
“Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.”
“Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.”
“Our problem wasn’t that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the biggest lessons time after time was to focus. Do fewer things.”
“Our problem with desire is that we want too little.”
“Our problem with limited resources is not primarily overpopulation; it is greed. Our problem with pollution is not the invention of fluorocarbons or mass transport; it is irresponsibility. The loss of an acre of forest every second, the mass slaughter of elephants for their ivory, the extinction of entire species of plants, insects and animals all over the world is not something that "just happens" because there are more of us human beings. It happens because the race of ruling beings put in charge has almost wholly lost its sense of stewardship. We have turned away from God.”
“Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer.”
“Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.”
“Our problems and pain are universal and increasing, and the solutions to the problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“Our problems are both acute and chronic, yet all we hear from those in positions of leadership are the same tired proposals for more government tinkering, more meddling and more control---all of which led us to this state in the first place... We must have the clarity of vision to see the difference between what is essential and what is merely desirable, and then the courage to bring our government back under control and make it acceptable to the people.”
“Our problems are God's opportunities.”
“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man”
“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.”
“Our problems are not solved by physical force, by hatred, by warOur problems are solved by loving kindness by gentleness, by joy”
“Our problems are not with the data, itself, but arise from our interpretation of the data.”
Source: Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There from Here
“Our problems are ours alone, others only watch. So, don’t rely on others for solutions or support.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“Our problems are solvable if they are clearly defined. To do so, we need to monitor our planetary life support systems the way doctors monitor a patient's vital signs and then use that information to protect ecosystem services as though our lives depend on it, because they do.”
“Our problems are technical, not political”
“Our problems come not from what we believe, but from how we believe in what we do.”
“Our problems is not even the people we are blaming and bashing. It is that we good in making bad, stupid decisions and we don’t want to admit it. So , we keep on making same mistakes over and over.”
“Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.”
“Our problems may tower over us, but God towers over our problems.”
“Our problems sometimes show the degree of our relationship with God.”
“Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit.”
Source: The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)
“Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”
“Our problems stop existing whenever we stop thinking.”
“Our problems, We choose to judge and laugh at other people. Instead of choosing to help and to support them. Especially , When they are going through some things.”