T Quotes
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“The purpose of prayer is not to change God's mind, which always knows your wholeness and your deservingness. The purpose of prayer is to change your mind so you can see through the eyes of God.”
“The purpose of prayer is not to influence God to grant you special favors, but rather to remind yourself that you are always connected to God.”
“The purpose of prayer is the alignment of the mind with the thoughts and the will of God.”
Source: Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage
“The purpose of prayer is to be filled with the power of Holy Spirit.”
“The purpose of prayer is to purify people.”
“The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.”
Source: Christian Disciplines: Building Strong Character
“The purpose of privilege is not to place parliamentarians above the law, but rather to allow them to carry out their duties independently and effectively, in the national interest.”
Source: The House of Commons at Work
“The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems... There was a time when I thought it was a nuisance to be confronted with a problem. I tried to get rid of it. I tried to get somebody else to solve it for me. But that was a long time ago. It was a great day in my life when I discovered the wonderful purpose of problems. Yes, they have a wonderful purpose.”
“The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting distraction for blasé young gentlemen, but to convince... the masses. But the masses are slow moving, and they always require a certain time before they are ready even to notice a thing, and only after the simplest ideas are repeated thousands of times will the masses finally remember them.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“The purpose of pruning is to improve the quality of the roses, not to hurt the bush.”
Source: It Takes So Little to Be Above Average
“The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.”
“The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.”
“The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.”
“The purpose of pure science is to observe phenomena and to trace their laws; the purpose of art is to produce, modify, or destroy. Strictly speaking there is no such thing as applied science, for, the moment the attempt is made to apply, science passes into the realm of art.”
Source: A Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry
“The purpose of quantum computing based compassionate artificial intelligence is to develop integrated systems that can preserve and enhance human values of peace, love, happiness and freedom.”
Source: Compassionate Artificial Superintelligence AI 5.0
“The purpose of quantum linguistics is to survey the spirit of linguistics and finding solutions to the common barrier problems faced by means of deliberate use of language.”
Source: Be First: Achieve Every Dream
“The purpose of real estate agent should be to create a customer who creates customers.”
“The purpose of reason is not to turn this world cold, but to rid it of biases - of prejudice.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“The purpose of redemption is Possession, and the purpose of Possession is likeness to Him who is Redeemer and Owner, is Holiness. [. . .]
Redemption is too often looked at from its negative side as deliverance from: its real glory is the positive element of being redeemed unto Himself. [. . .]
‘Ye have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself. Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep m covenant, ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: ye shall be unto me an holy nation.’—Exodus 14:4-6
The link between Redemption and Holiness is Obedience. [ . . .]
God’s Holiness is His fatherliness; our holiness is childlikeness. [. . .]
If we are truly to live as redeemed ones, we need not only to look at the work Christ did to accomplish our redemption, but to accept and realize fully how complete, how sure, how absolute the liberty is wherewith He hath made us free. It is only as we ‘stand fast in our liberty in Christ Jesus,’ that we can have our fruit unto sanctification.”
Source: Holy in Christ: A devotional look at your life
“The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.”
Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“The purpose of relationship may not be what you think. If you are excited about forming a relationship based on what it looks like you can get, rather than what you can give, you have started off on the wrong foot entirely, and you could be heading for a big disappointment. The purpose of all relationships is to create a sacred context within which you can express the fullness of who you are. And who you are is an experience you have before you enter relationship, not because you did.”
“The purpose of relationships is not happiness, but transformation.”
“The purpose of religion is not so much to get us into heaven, or to keep us out of hell, but to put a little bit of heaven into us, and take the hell out of us. This has always been the greatest responsibility of religion.”
“The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.”
“The purpose of religion is to teach you and guide you to God. Once you have faith, your heart will become your torch to guide you through the thick darkness of life.”
“The purpose of revival is to fire the church with divine energy for her divine assignment. Revival will tear us away from our temporal pursuits to give ourselves for what really matters.Revival will not occur without prayer. Prevailing prayer is always antecedent to revival.”
“The purpose of revolution is not liberation, it's self-determination.”
Source: Revolution Indomable
“The purpose of ritual is to change the mind of the human being. It's a sacred drama in which you are the audience as well as the participant, and the purpose of it is to activate the parts of the mind that are not activated by everyday activity ... 'Magic' becomes the development of techniques that allow communication with hidden portions of the self, and with hidden portions of all other islands in this 'psychic sea.'”
“The purpose of ritual is to wake up the old mind in us, to put it to work. The old ones inside us, the collective unconscious, the many lives, the divine eternal parts, the senses and parts of the brain that have been ignored.”
“The purpose of road traffic is speed, not safety.”
“The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you.”
“The purpose of romantic relationships is to encourage you to grow spiritually.”
“The purpose of romantic relationships is to encourage you to grow spiritually. Romantic relationships can do this because they are interactions in which you come to see those parts of yourself that are constructive, healthy and creative. You see them because you project them onto someone else.”
“The purpose of Sabbath is not simply to rejuvenate yourself in order to do more production, nor is it the pursuit of pleasure. The purpose of Sabbath is to enjoy your God, life in general, what you have accomplished in the world through his help, and the freedom you have in the gospel-the freedom from slavery to any material object or human expectation. The Sabbath is a sign of the hope that we have in the world to come.”
“The purpose of sales funnels is to help the prospect to see the good in them and allow them to gain confidence .”
“The purpose of salt is to change the nature of what it invades without calling attention to itself. Attracting attention to yourself in the Kingdom of God is like seducing the bride because you are the best man of the groom.”
“The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!”
“The purpose of school is for children to learn, not for them to feel good about themselves all the time.”
Source: Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled—and More Miserable Than Ever Before
“The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for is surviving the school day itself.”
Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now.”
Source: The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
“The purpose of schools should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now”
“The purpose of science is not down-scaling everything to physical level and measure, but to penetrate deeper into the realm beyond the sensory perceptions and bring more in-depth knowledge and wisdom to the world.”
Source: 72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation
“The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.”
Source: I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic
“The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.”
Source: The Trouble with Testosterone: And Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament
“The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and the processes of nature. The even more important task of religion, on the other hand, is to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.”
Source: The electron, its isolation and measurement ant the determination of some of its properties
“The purpose of scientific enquiry is not to compile an inventory of factual information, nor to build up a totalitarian world picture of natural Laws in which every event that is not compulsory is forbidden. We should think of it rather as a logically articulated structure of justifiable beliefs about nature.”
Source: Induction and intuition in scientific thought
“The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is what science is all about. But historically science has done exactly the opposite. Through multiplication upon multiplication of facts, information, theories and hypotheses, it is science itself that is leading mankind from single absolute truths to multiple indeterminate, relative ones.”
“The purpose of seasonal festivals is periodically to revive the topocosm. Gaster coined this word from the Greek - topo for place and cosmos for world order. Topocosm means "the world order of a particular place." The topocosm is the entire complex of any given locality conceived as a living organism, not just the human community but the total community - the plants, animals and soils of the place. The topocosm is not only the actual and present living community but also that continuous entity of which the present community is but the current manifestation.”
“The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.
[Letter objecting to the use of government land for churches, 1803]”