T Quotes
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“The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.”
“The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.”
“The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.”
“The great and good ends proposed by the Illuminati, as the ultimate objects of their union, are the overthrow of religion, government, and human society civil and domestic.”
“The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.”
Source: Sermons on important subjects
“The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.”
“The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong.”
“The great and present danger to American literature is the growing homogeneity of our writers, especially the younger generation. Often raised in several places in no specific cultural or religious community, educated with no deep connection to a particular region, history, or tradition, and now employed mostly in academia, the American writer is becoming as standardized as the American car—functional, streamlined, and increasingly interchangeable.”
Source: The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays
“The great and rare mystics of the past . . . were, in fact, ahead of their time, and are still ahead of ours. In other words, they most definitely are not figures of the past. They are figures of the future.”
Source: Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition
“The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?”
Source: Personal Pleasures
“The great and secret message of the experiential mystics the world over is that, with the eye of contemplation, Spirit can be seen. With the eye of contemplation, the great Within radiantly unfolds. And in all cases, the eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you: the eye of contemplation.”
Source: The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings
“The great and the good will decide what is good for us and make sure that we get what is good for us, good and hard.”
“The great and the mighty that use their assets and power to subjugate people are demonstrating oppression.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“The Great and Tragic Love of Jonathan Shadowhunter and David the Silent, by Clary Fray, Aged 17.
SIMON IT WAS BY SIMON NOT ME
(...) Jonathan Shadowhunter: Oh, David, I would trust you with my life!
David: Oh, Jonathan, I would sacrifice my own life for your holy mission! (He almost does)
Jonathan: (weeping) David, you must return to me! I need you! I cannot do this thing without you!
David: Lo, I return!
Jonathan: Zounds! I feel a great stirring in my pantaloons!
David: What doth thy pantalo
SIMON I WILL KILL YOU”
Source: The Shadowhunter's Codex
“The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus
“The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.”
Source: The practice of godliness
“The Great Apostasy:
The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason, God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness (2 Thessalonians 9-12, NKJV).”
Source: Nkjv Personal Size Giant Print Reference Bible
“The great apparent dichotomy is that the more we give, the more we get.”
Source: First Things First
“The great appeal of baseball, among the great appeals, it's a game without time. It is a pastoral game that is separated from time.”
“The great appeal of film is its relatability.”
“The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.”
“The great appear great to us.”
Source: James Connolly: Selected Writings
“The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children... What the women pass on to the next generation is "right" and what they do not bother to pass on to their children sooner or later becomes "wrong.”
“The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.”
Source: Journey to the Centre of the Earth
“The great are eternally at the mercy of tiny men. And also, tiny madwomen.”
“The great are not famous, and the famous are not great”
“The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!”
“The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.”
Source: Savitri: Sri Aurobindo
“The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply, that the modern mind cannot accept it.”
Source: Some Loose Stones: Being a Consideration of Certain Tendencies in Modern Theology Illustrated by Reference to the Book Called
“The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.”
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is the honoring of small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.”
Source: A New Earth: Create a Better Life
“The Great Arizona Desert is full of the bleaching bones of people who waited for me to start something.”
“The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.”
Source: The First World War: An Illustrated History
“The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison
“The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.”
“The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.”
“The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.”
“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”
“The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.”
“The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.”
“The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.”
“The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain.”
Source: An Exhibition of Paintings, Engravings & Sculpture [by] Gauguin
“The great artist is a slave to his ideals.”
“The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.”
Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality
“The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.”
“The great artist is the simplifier.”
“The great artist Michelangelo claimed that his sculptures were already present in the stone, and all he had to do was carve away everything else.
Our understanding of identity is often similar: Beneath the many layers of shoulds and shouldn’ts that cover us, there lies a constant, single, true self that is just waiting to be discovered.”
“The great artist, Professor Pezhman Mosleh, have always been the pride of Iranian culture and music.”
“The great artist represents in all but funds—that is, by his own word—the confessional aristocracy of an erudite if autodidactic intelligence, one that is forever imparted from the vantage of an outsider.”
Source: The Tedium Lies