T Quotes
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“The proper exegetical principle is this: Mosaic law is still to be enforced, by the church or the State or both, unless there is a specific injunction to the contrary in the New Testament.”
“The proper focus of holiness is not on being set apart from something (i.e., the world), but on being set apart for something.”
Source: Putting Amazing Back into Grace: Embracing the Heart of the Gospel
“The proper form of economy must be observed in building houses for each and every class.”
“The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.”
“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
“The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary system of local living economies comprised of human-scale enterprise rooted in the communities they serve and locally owned by the people whose wellbeing depends on them.”
“The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.”
“The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.”
Source: Confucian Analects
“The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.”
Source: Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc
“The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
“The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
“The proper METHOD for studying poetry and good letters is the method of contemporary biologists, that is careful first-hand examination of the matter, and continual COMPARISON of one ‘slide’ or specimen with another.
No man is equipped for modern thinking until he has understood the anecdote of Agassiz and the fish:
A post-graduate student equipped with honours and diplomas went to Agassiz to receive the final and finishing touches.
The great man offered him a small fish and told him to describe it.
Post-Graduate Student: “That’s only a sun-fish”
Agassiz: “I know that. Write a description of it.”
After a few minutes the student returned with the description of the Ichthus Heliodiplodokus, or whatever term is used to conceal the common sunfish from vulgar knowledge, family of Heliichterinkus, etc., as found in textbooks of the subject.
Agassiz again told the student to describe the fish.
The student produced a four-page essay.
Agassiz then told him to look at the fish. At the end of the three weeks the fish was in an advanced state of decomposition, but the student knew something about it.
— ABC of Reading (1934; New Directions)”
“The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.”
Source: First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge
“The proper method of playing mixed doubles is to swipe the ball accidentally and straight at the woman opponent as hard and as accurately as possible. Male players must not only retain equanimity on their side of the net, but create dissension on the other.”
“The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity.”
Source: What's Wrong with the World
“The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“The proper office of religion is to regulate the heart of men, humanize their conduct, infuse the spirit of temperance, order, andobedience; and as its operation is silent, and only enforces the motives of morality and justice, it is in danger of being overlooked, and confounded with these other motives.”
Source: Dialogues and Natural History of Religion
“The proper order of things is often a mystery to me. You, too?”
“The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.”
“the proper place to eat lobster ... is in a lobster shack as close to the sea as possible. There is no menu card because there is nothing else to eat except boiled lobster with melted butter.”
“The proper place to start, in order to understand the various things called religion, is in the human capacity to entertain supernatural fantasy. This vast domain of cognition includes daydreaming, fiction, myth, dreams, all produced by what classical psychology would have called the faculty of imagination.”
Source: Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
“The proper Reading not only moves you to a new worlds but it's succeeds in moving your ideas completely..
Mahmoud Hisham”
“The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.”
“The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.”
Source: The Huston Smith Reader
“The proper response to difficulty is not to retreat. It is to prevail.”
“The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.”
“The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.”
Source: The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
“The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the 19th century in "On Liberty." The proper role of government is to prevent other people from harming an individual. Government, he said, never has any right to interfere with an individual for that individual's own good.”
“The proper role of government, however, is that of partner with the farmer -- never his master. By every possible means we must develop and promote that partnership -- to the end that agriculture may continue to be a sound, enduring foundation for our economy and that farm living may be a profitable and satisfying experience.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956
“The proper role of humanists is not to bring 'human values' to the attention of technicians otherwise engaged in a purely instrumental approach to their calling, but to demand the restoration of the practical or moral element in callings that have degenerated into techniques.”
“The proper role of the judiciary is one of interpreting and applying the law, not making it.”
“The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.”
“The proper school to learn art is not life but art”
“The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself.
[Fr., La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est l'homme.]”
“The proper self-knowledge and self-love of every created thing is ipso facto a participation in the knowledge and love of God. The entire universe moves by desire for the Highest Good simply because every part of it loves what God loves - namely, its own unique being. The stones on the beach, the grass in the field, the rabbits in the woods, and the stars in the sky all move toward him by the most dependable of all motions: their own desire to know and love themselves.”
Source: Between Noon & Three: Romance, Law & the Outrage of Grace
“THE PROPER SPACE FOR LIONESS (THE GIRL) IS IN A JUNGLE(WHOLLY WORLD), NOT IN A CAGE(HOUSE).”
“The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.”
“The proper study of mankind is books.”
“The proper study of Mankind is Everything.”
Source: The MaddAddam Trilogy Bundle: The Year of the Flood; Oryx & Crake; MaddAddam
“The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“The proper study of mankind is man," you know.'
'You must study him, then,”
Source: A Study in Scarlet
“The proper study of Mankind is Man.”
“The proper study of mankind is the science of design.”
“The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss.”
Source: Selected essays
“The proper task of social reform is to remove poverty from society and to ensure that people do not sell their conscience to make a living.”
“The proper task of the Savior is that he is a savior; indeed, for this he came into the world: to seek and save what was lost.”
Source: The Academic Sermons (The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation, Volume 11)
“The proper thing to do is to admit that hell is real and to allow our feelings of discomfort to motivate us to action.”
“The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.”
Source: More Lay Thoughts of a Dean