T Quotes
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“The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.”
Source: The Writing of the Disaster
“The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.”
Source: The Writing of the Disaster
“The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.”
“The disasters at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were our handiwork,” the Times editorial stated. “They were defended then, and are defended now, by the argument that they saved more lives than they took – more lives of Japanese as well as more lives of Americans. The argument may be sound or it may be unsound. One may think it sound when he recalls Tarawa, Iwo Jima, or Okinawa. One may think it unsound when he reads Mr. Hersey.”
Source: Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
“The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.”
“The disastrous consequences of widespread European butchery in the future would be even worse.”
“The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.”
Source: Civilization and Ethics
“The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes.”
“The disastrous invasion of Iraq, something that I strongly opposed, has unraveled the region.”
“The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for too long and set out for the antipodes soon learned that the reason why distant ships sometimes looked as though they were disappearing over the edge of the world was that they were disappearing over the edge of the world.”
“The discerning realize that it is not realistic to expect perfection in others when none of us is perfect...Meaningful progress can be made only when all of us can cast the motes out of our own eyes, leave judgment to our Father in Heaven, and lose ourselves in righteous living.”
“The discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people, if they know how to pray, can be trusted to know what to do with God's call.”
Source: Pope Benedict in America: The Full Texts of Papal Talks Given During His Apostolic Visit to the United States
“The disciple asked: Master, after many years I have become a wise man, so when will I sit in your seat? The master replied: I am not sitting on the seat, the seat is sitting under me! Whenever the seat goes from under me, you can sit on it!”
“The disciple asked: Master, does the fact that our temple was built on a high mountain indicate our determination to approach a mystical intelligent power in the heavens? The master replied: No! It just expresses our desire to escape from the fool below!”
“The disciple asked: Master, I am looking for the secret of immortality, do you have it? The master replied: I have not, for now no one has, but if you find it, I will gladly be your disciple!”
“The disciple asked: Master, you are quite old now, will you buy a tombstone for yourself? The master replied: If I buy it, it shows that I believe I will die! However, in this temple, we learned and taught that everything is possible in the universe! If everything is possible, then it is also possible not to die!”
“The disciple asked: Master, you know everything, can you give me eternal life? The master replied: Is it enough if I give you eternal life? I must also give eternal life to the Earth! So is that enough? I need to give eternal life to the universe too!”
“The disciple is not hankering for knowledge; he wants to see, not to know. He wants to be. He is no longer interested in having more knowledge; he wants to have more being.”
“The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity.”
Source: Approved Unto God / Facing Reality
“The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.”
Source: Complete Works
“The disciple of Jesus gives up all he has, all his goods, because he has found in him the greatest Good from which every other good receives its full value and meaning: family bonds, other relationships, work, cultural and economic goods and so on... The Christian detaches himself from everything and rediscovers all of it in the logic of the Gospel, the logic of love and service.”
“The disciple of Jesus is not the deluxe or heavy-duty model of the Christian-especially padded, textured, streamlined, and empowered for the fast lane on the straight and narrow way. He stands on the pages of the New Testament as the first level of basic transportation in the kingdom of God.”
Source: The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus’s Essential Teachings on Discipleship
“The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity... out of the realm of the finite...into the realm of infinite possibilities.”
“The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You were within the portals of the temple ... to enter the wilderness and seek, in the primal patterns of nature, a magical union with beauty.”
“The Disciples' Creed
1. Where there is ignorance I will sow knowledge.
2. Where there is confusion I will sow understanding.
3. Where there is folly I will sow wisdom.
4. Where there is sorrow I will sow joy.
5. Where there is despair I will sow hope.
6. Where there is anger I will sow mercy.
7. Where there is bitterness I will sow compassion.
8. Where there is hate I will sow love.
9.Where there is vice I will sow virtue.
10.Where there is darkness I will sow light.”
“The disciples had nothing to gain by lying and starting a new religion. They faced hardship, ridicule, hostility, and martyr's deaths. In light of this, they could never have sustained such unwavering motivation if they knew what they were preaching was a lie. The disciples were not fools and Paul was a cool-headed intellectual of the first rank. There would have been several opportunities over three to four decades of ministry to reconsider and renounce a lie.”
“The disciples obey because that's what people do when someone rises from the dead and gives instructions.”
Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply
“The disciples of a patient Saviour should be patient themselves.”
“The disciples of Jesus Christ, believes in God.”
“The disciples of Jesus “found themselves thinking that if divine goodness were to manifest itself in human form, this (he) is how it would behave… he invited people to see differently instead of telling them what to do or believe…he located the authority of his teaching in his hearer’s hearts, not in himself or God-as-removed.”
Source: The World's Religions
“The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-Tzu's dictum: "Those who know, do not say; Those who say, do not know." When the master entered, they asked him what the words meant. Said the master, "Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose?" All of them indicated that they knew. Then he said, "Put it into words." All of them were silent.”
Source: One Minute Wisdom
“The disciples were, most likely, rather well off. Peter and Andrew were business partners of James and John (Luke 5:7, 10). James and John, under the supervision of their father, Zebedee, ran a fishing business wealthy enough to employ multiple hired men (Mark 1:19–20).”
Source: Biographies of Jesus' Apostles: Ambassadors in Chains
“The disciples were not losing time when they sat beside their Master, and held quiet converse with Him under the olives of Bethany or by the shores of Galilee. Those were their school-hours; those were their feeding times.”
“The disciples worshipped the most high Lord Who had come down from heaven, made the earth into heaven and gone up again whence He came, having united things below with things above and formed one Church, at the same time heavenly and earthly, to the glory of His love for mankind.”
Source: The homilies
“The disciplinary power that inscribes femininity in the female body is everywhere and it is nowhere; the disciplinarian is everyone and yet no one in particular.”
Source: Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression
“The discipline gave me a sense of achievement. Not least, fasting is a test of willpower and, whenever I felt my willpower weakening, I would tell myself that I could eat as much as I wanted after sunset. But then the strange thing was that after fasting all day long, I tended to feel full with just a small snack.”
Source: From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
“The discipline God gives is to make us delight in him.”
“The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.”
Source: Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and marriage
“The discipline is the key to the success of your life purpose; without that, you reach no anywhere.”
“The discipline learned from putting in time and effort as a child is a skill and a talent you carry with you for the rest of your life in trying to achieve goals.”
“The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters. Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases to behave toward him as if he performed it with the greatest diligence and ability.”
“The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.”
“The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.”
“The discipline of desire is the background of character.”
“The discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the expense of historical research and collaboration with the other social sciences.”
“The discipline of fasting breaks you out of the world's routine.”
Source: Fasting Study Guide
“The discipline of fasting releases the anointing, the favor, and the blessing of God in the life of a Christian.”
Source: Fasting Student Edition: Go Deeper and Further with God than Ever Before
“The discipline of focus that is necessary to think profoundly is certainly difficult for many people to achieve.”
Source: Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future
“The discipline of joy is about survival.
You make your own joy-
this is the work my mother taught me.
Little factory, little mine of reminders-
find, make, joy to sustain multiple life-
times: the blanket made beautiful
from patterned found scraps;
the broth of tap water and ginger and bones.
What fullness my mother earned
and could stuff inside an envelope
to send each month back home.”
Source: Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire
“The discipline of live theater - doing the same perfect thing night after night, eight times a week - never ceases to amaze me”