T Quotes
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“The great mystery of our metaphysical situation, that God is nearer to us than we are ourselves, is manifest in the fact that we cannot even be wholly ourselves—in the sense of individuality as a unique divine thought—until we are reborn in Christ.”
Source: Transformation in Christ
“The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.”
“The great myth is that the bad ones don't last long.”
Source: Oblivion
“The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.”
“The great myth of our work-intense era is 'quality time.' We believe we can make up for the loss of days or hours, especially with each other, by concentrated minutes. But ultimately there is no way to do one-minute mothering. There is no way to pay attention in a hurry.”
Source: Making Sense
“The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.”
“The great natural forces lie outside us and we are not conscious of them: we call those forces gravitation, inertia, electricity, animal force, and so on, but we are conscious of the force of life in man and we call it freedom.”
Source: War and Peace
“The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert (Illustrated)
“The great need is for us to be taught theologically, not just stirred emotionally.”
Source: Made For His Pleasure: Ten Benchmarks of a Vital Faith
“The great need is God.”
“The great need is God's grace.”
“The great need to grasp principles had caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless persuits.”
“The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?”
“The great news is that God knows everything about you, both good and bad, and He still loves you and values you unconditionally. God does not always approve of our behavior. He is not pleased when we go against his will, and when we do, we always suffer the consequences and have to work with Him to correct our thoughts, words, actions, or attitudes. And while you should work to improve in the areas where you fall short, nothing you do will ever cause God to love you less…or more. His love is a constant you can depend on.”
“The great news is that overwhelmingly far more than adults, youth already care about the environment. Young people are recognizing that we have largely made a mess of things with respect to the environment [and] that the burden to fix it will fall on them.”
“The great news is that that sort of group of people and that sort of sensibility is beginning to become more active again. And I think partly it just has to do with the time. It has to do with the culture of resistance. The necessity is for us to pull together and to speak up and to make work and be visible.”
“The great news is we have an all-female shortlist with no positive discrimination or anything, isn't that fantastic?”
“The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.”
Source: The Ethics of Liberty
“The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, "One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door." The future is knocking at our door right now. Make no mistake, the next generation will ask us one of two questions. Either they will ask: "What were you thinking; why didn't you act?" Or they will ask instead: "How did you find the moral courage to rise and successfully resolve a crisis that so many said was impossible to solve?”
“the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.”
Source: Works
“The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.”
“The great object is that every man be armed.”
Source: Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries
“The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath.”
“The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful man with an interest in himself; with a curiosity touching his own nature; to acquaint him with the resources of his mind, and to teach him that there is all his strength.”
Source: The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this "craving void" which drives us to gaming - to battle - to travel - to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.”
“The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them.”
Source: The Real Thomas Jefferson
“The great object of the Christian is duty; his predominant desire to obey God. When he can please the world consistently with these, he will do so; otherwise it is enough for him that God commands, and enough for them that he cannot disobey.”
Source: Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character
“The great object to be attained through the observance of Arbor Day is the cultivation of a love for nature among children, with the confident expectation that thereby the needless de-struction of the forests will be stayed, and the improvement of grounds about school buildings and residences will be promoted.”
“The great object was to get rid of Christianity, and to convert our churches into halls of science. The plan was not to make open attacks on religion, although we might the clergy and bring them into contempt where we could: but to establish a system of state - we said national - schools, from which all religion was to be excluded.”
Source: An Address on Intemperance: Delivered in Walpole, N.H. February 26, 1833
“The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were not concerned in the execution of it. Adding to these considerations the natural diversity of human opinions on all new and complicated subjects, it is impossible to consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle.”
Source: James Madison's
“The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.”
“The great obstacle to progress is prejudice”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
“The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.”
“the great ones are everywhere. The Sky, the Earth, the Sun and Moon – we shall never be beyond their sight. The rivers shall always be the tributaries of the one river, Aysana the Great Mother.”
Source: Lahana
“The great ones don't come cheap.”
“The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, through hard work, persistence and faith turning whatever they touch into gold.”
“The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.”
Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
“The great ones realize that what you did yesterday guarantees you nothing today. The challenge is too many people are busy celebrating yesterday's success.”
“The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.”
“The great opportunity you are daring to get may not come at once. But it is possible that this opportunity is hidden in the tiny ones you neglect every day.”
Source: 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
“The great opposition to reading is what I allow to fill my time instead of reading. To say we have no time to read is not really true; we simply have chosen to use our time for other things, or have allowed our time to be filled to the exclusion of reading. So don't add reading to your to-do list. Just stop doing the things that keep you from doing it. But read.”
“The great Pacific Railway is commenced... Immigration will soon pour into these valleys. Ten millions of emigrants will settle in this golden land in twenty years... This is the grandest enterprise under God!”
“The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living termsonce had a vast and perhaps perfect science of itsown, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.”
“The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them, the stronger you were as a painter.”
“The great pandemic has come like a paroxysm to our SOCIETY
To break the bond of AMITY
The world one year before was the place where every people could experience joie de vivre with gargantuan ECSTASY
But the world today is the place where many valetudinarians are residing with POIGNANCY”
“The great paradox is that our lack of faith in love and miracles is what blocks us from receiving love and miracles.”
“The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations, can be phrased in more biological terms as follows: If our genes are inherited, and our environment is a train of physical events set in motion before we were born, how can there be a truly independent agent within the brain? The agent itself is created by the interaction of the genes and the environment. It would appear that our freedom is only a self delusion.”
“The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.”
“The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created differential rights based on race, gender and, any day now, sexual orientation. The great liberal revolution, centuries in the making, that brought forth equality in law has been overthrown. In its place we see rising a new feudal legal order of status-based rights.”