T Quotes
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“The true bodhisattva spirit grows out of this personal sense of freedom. You discover that you don't feel so needy anymore. You don't crave another refueling - with shamatha or with other people's love and attention - because you know within yourself how to be free, how to be confident. With this sense of security and freedom, you begin to direct your attention to the needs of others. The compassion expands.”
“The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.”
“The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and an almost infinite capacity for forming complicated and unworkable rules.”
“The true business of every company is to make and keep customers.”
“The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”
“The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.”
“The true but rare runner's high is a zone that we enter when everything seems to click perfectly, when time stands still, and when we can run almost without effort.”
Source: The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart
“The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.”
Source: Thoughts that breathe
“The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.”
“The true cause of hatred and violence is faith versus faith, an outward expression of the ancient instinct of tribalism.”
“The true celebration of Christmas is when we ponder afresh the grace of God who became human, entered history through a virgin's womb, and brought redemption to the world.”
“The true celebration of the resurrection day is in the core realisation of the truth that 'Crucified Love' is alive. He lives with us today. He was, He is, and He will always be..Hallelujah! Maranatha”
“The true challenge is how you continue doing it, after you’ve ridden the biggest wave, crossed the longest distance. You set up challenges that are more than what you
ever did before. And by getting through it, you get the sensation you’ve completed something. And if it’s dangerous, then other things that scare you, the experience will strengthen you for those situations.”
Source: The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance
“The true challenge of charity is not in the gifting of your trash but of your treasure, not your worst but your best.”
“The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.”
Source: The Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, The Apology, Crito [and] Phaedo
“The true champions of a nation's freedom are those who reject the limitations of stereotypes and affirm the rich diversity of human nature to be found.”
Source: An Armenian Sketchbook
“The true character of a man is not measured by how he handles adversity but by the success”
“The true character of a man is not seen through his choices, but the passion in his heart.”
“THE TRUE CHARACTER OF A PERSON IN SEEN WHEN HE/SHE IS ALONE...”
“The true character of a person lays in their willingness to face the gravest of moments, and in those moments to turn the best of their ideals into the most sacrificial of actions.”
“The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.”
“The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.”
Source: Some of the
“The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.”
Source: Voltaire: Index to His Works, Genius and Character
“The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk.”
Source: A Tramp Abroad
“The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.”
“The true Christian can nurture a trustful optimism, because he is certain of not walking alone. In sending us Jesus, the eternal Son made man, God has drawn near to each of us. In Christ he has become our travelling companion.”
“The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.”
“The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.”
“The true Christian does not need to be reminded that he has a crucified Master. He often thinks of Him.”
“The true Christian hero will appear in the cause of Christ, not only when it is prevailing, but when it seems to be declining; (he) will be on the right side, though it be not the rising side.”
Source: Exposition of the Old and New Testament
“The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy.”
“The true Christian is a communicator.”
“The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.”
Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana
“The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return.”
“The true Christian is one who is kind of sick of this world. If I find anybody who is settled down too snugly into this world, I am made to doubt whether he's ever truly been born again”
“The true Christian loves his Savior with his whole heart and wants nothing to do with the sin that nailed his Redeemer to the cross.”
“The true Christian not only feels no need of culture, because this is a worldly principle and opposed to feeling; he also has no need of (natural) love. … God supplies to him the want of love, of a wife, of a family. … [T]he man who does not deny his manhood, is conscious that he is only part of a being, which needs another part for the making up of the whole of true humanity. The Christian, on the contrary, in his excessive, transcendental subjectivity, conceives that he is, by himself, a perfect being. But the sexual instinct runs counter to this view; it is in contradiction with his ideal: the Christian must therefore deny this instinct.”
Source: Essence of Christianity
“The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown.”
“The true Christian regards all Christ's friends as his friends, members of the same body, children of the same family, soldiers in the same army, travelers to the same home. When he meets them, he feels as if he had long known them. He is more at home with them in a few minutes, than he is with many worldly people after an acquaintance of several years. And what is the secret of all this? It is simply affection to the same Savior and love to the same Lord.”
Source: Moody Classics Complete Set
“The true Christian was intended by Christ to prove all things by the Word of God: all churches, all ministers, all teaching, all preaching, all doctrines, all sermons, all writings, all opinions, all practices. These are his marching orders. Prove all by the Word of God; measure all by the measure of the Bible; compare all with the standard of the Bible; weigh all in the balances of the Bible; examine all by the light of the Bible; test all in the crucible of the Bible. That which cannot abide the fire of the Bible, reject, refuse, repudiate, and cast away. This is the flag which he nailed to the mast. May it never be lowered!”
“The true Christian's nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool.”
Source: Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
“The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down on their task because it is cast in the day of small things; scornful of baseness, awake to their own duties as well as to their rights, following the higher law with reverence, and in this world doing all that in their power lies, so that when death comes they may feel that humanity is in some degree better because they lived.”
“The true Christmas spirit is putting others’ happiness before our own, and finding you’ve never known such happiness.”
“The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.”
Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems
“The true Church has never sounded out public expectations before launching her mission. Her leaders heard from God, they knew their Lord's will and did it. Their people followed them - sometimes to triumph, oftener to insults and public persecution - and their sufficient reward was the satisfaction of being right in a wrong world!”
“The true Church is born from above. In it there are no sinners, and outside of it no saints. No man can put another's name on its member's roll; and no man can cross another's name off that roll.”
“The true church is built on the foundation of Jesus Christ, with the Bible as its guiding light. It's a community of believers united in faith and love, with a mission to spread the gospel to all nations. The true church is not just a social gathering, but a body of believers with a sacred purpose. With divine healing and prayer at its core, the true church stands as a pillar of hope and love. As members of the true church, we're called to live out our faith in obedience to God's Word. In Jesus' name, we shine bright, spreading love and light to a world in need.”
“The true church is not a building, but a body of believers united in faith and love. It's a community of people who come together to worship, pray, and serve. The true church is built on the foundation of Jesus Christ, with the Bible as its guiding light. It's not a physical structure, but a spiritual entity that transcends walls and boundaries. The true church is where hearts are transformed, and lives are changed. Wherever believers gather in Jesus' name, the true church is present.”
“The true Church is not an institution to be kept apart from the world because the world "is common and unclean," but a vital heart of truth and love, beating with the life of Jesus, and sending abroad its sanctifying pulsations until nothing shall be common and unclean.”
“The true church is not an organization controlled by the rules of men but a holy collection of living stones with Jesus Christ as the Cornerstone.”
Source: The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun