T Quotes
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“The supreme task of the Church is the evangelization of the world.”
Source: The Story of My Life: And the Peoples Church
“The supreme task of the church is the evangelization of the world. No one has the right to hear the gospel twice until everyone has had an opportunity to hear it at least once.”
“The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them.”
Source: Essays in Science
“The supreme test of service is this: For whom am I doing this? Much that we call service to Christ is not such at all....If we are doing this for Christ, we shall not care for human reward or even recognition.”
“The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... The fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down.”
“The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.”
“The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.”
Source: Tragic Sense of Life
“The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.”
Source: The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre
“The supreme vice is shallowness.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,
“The Surangama Sutra chooses, as the best meditation method for the present historic cycle, the one used by Avalokitesvara. It disengages bodily hearing from outward sound, then penetrates still deeper into the void beyond this duality, then beyond ego and its object, until all opposites and dualities vanish, leaving absoluteness. Nirvana follows as a natural consequence. In other words, disengage consciousness from the senses and return to pure Consciousness itself.”
Source: Advanced contemplation: The peace within you
“The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.”
“The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.”
“The sure guaranty of the peace and security of each race is the clear, distinct, unconditional recognition by our governments, national and state, of every right that inheres in civil freedom, and of the equality before the law of all citizens of the United States, without regard to race. State enactments regulating the enjoyment of civil rights upon the basis of race, and cunningly devised to defeat legitimate results of the war, under the pretense of recognizing equality of rights, can have no other result than to render permanent peace impossible, and to keep alive a conflict of races, the continuance of which must do harm to all concerned.”
“The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.”
“The sure path can only lead to death.”
“The sure path to tomorrow was plotted in a manger and paved on a cross. And although this sturdy byway is mine for the taking, I have incessantly chosen lesser paths. And maybe it is time to realize that Christmas is a promise that I can walk through the world and never get lost in the woods.”
“The sure sign of an abusive agenda is that the individual abused words to propagate it.”
“The sure sign that a person who has little to say is that they won’t stop saying.”
“The sure way of judging whether our first thoughts are judicious, is to sleep on them. If they appear of the same force the next morning as they did over night, and if good nature ratifies what good sense approves, we may be pretty sure we are in the right.”
“The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)
“The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.”
“The sure way to be happy is to sing.”
“The sure way to succeed Is to endure to the very end.”
“The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.”
“The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.”
Source: The Sales Advantage: How to Get It, Keep It, and Sell More Than Ever
“The surer of himself an admiral is, the finer the tactical development of his fleet, the better his captains, the more reluctant must he necessarily be to enter into a melee with equal forces, in which all these advantages will be thrown away, chance reign supreme, and his fleet be place on terms of equality with an assemblage of ships which have never before acted together.”
Source: Sea Power and World History: 1660-1783
“The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.”
Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.”
“The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.”
“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.”
“The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.”
Source: Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography
“The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. For a long time there may be no perceptible reward for women other than their new sense of purpose and integrity. Joy does not mean riotous glee, but it does mean the purposive employment of energy in a self-chosen enterprise. It does mean pride and confidence. It does mean communication and cooperation with others based on delight in their company and your own. To be emancipated from helplessness and need and walk freely upon the earth that is your birthright. To refuse hobbles and deformity and take possession of your body and glory in its power, accepting its own laws of loveliness. To have something to desire, something to make, something to achieve, and at last something genuine to give. To be freed from guilt and shame and the tireless self-discipline of women. To stop pretending and dissembling, cajoling and manipulating, and begin to control and sympathize. To claim the masculine virtues of magnanimity and generosity and courage. It goes much further than equal pay for equal work, for it ought to revolutionise the conditions of work completely. It does not understand the phrase 'equality of opportunity', for it seems that the opportunities will have to be utterly changed and women's souls changed so that they desire opportunity instead of shrinking from it.”
Source: the female eunuch
“The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.”
Source: the female eunuch
“The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.”
“The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.”
“The surest mark of true conversion is humility.”
Source: Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew
“The surest method against scandal is live it down in well-doing.”
“The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of those who traduce and injure us.”
“The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.”
“The surest of stubborn silences is not to hold one’s tongue but to talk”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can lift us to a new, green economy - one with the power to lift people out of poverty while respecting and repairing the environment.”
Source: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
“The surest path to success is to surround yourself with brilliant women”
“The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“The surest poison is time.”
Source: The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.”
“The surest route to global unity is through diversity.”
“The surest sign of age is loneliness.”
“The surest sign of fitness is success.”
Source: The Story of an African Farm
“The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.”