T Quotes
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“The very purpose of our life is happiness, which is sustained by hope. We have no guarantee about the future, but we exist in the hope of something better. Hope means keeping going, thinking, ‘I can do this.’ It brings inner strength, self-confidence , the ability to do what you do honestly, truthfully and transparently.”
“The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.”
Source: The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living
“The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticise others.”
Source: Path To Tranquility
“The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.”
Source: Path To Tranquility
“The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.”
“The very quality of books to read and facts to master with which the twentieth-century man is confronted encourages him to think broadly and superficially about much, but hinders him from thinking deeply and thoroughly about anything.”
“The very quality of your life, whether you love it or hate it, is based upon how thankful you are toward God. It is one's attitude that determines whether life unfolds into a place of blessedness or wretchedness. Indeed, looking at the same rose bush, some people complain that the roses have thorns while others rejoice that some thorns come with roses. It all depends on your perspective.
This is the only life you will have before you enter eternity. If you want to find joy, you must first find thankfulness. Indeed, the one who is thankful for even a little enjoys much. But the unappreciative soul is always miserable, always complaining. He lives outside the shelter of the Most High God.
Perhaps the worst enemy we have is not the devil but our own tongue. James tells us, "The tongue is set among our members as that which . . . sets on fire the course of our life" (James 3:6). He goes on to say this fire is ignited by hell. Consider: with our own words we can enter the spirit of heaven or the agonies of hell!
It is hell with its punishments, torments and misery that controls the life of the grumbler and complainer! Paul expands this thought in 1 Corinthians 10:10, where he reminds us of the Jews who "grumble[d] . . . and were destroyed by the destroyer." The fact is, every time we open up to grumbling and complaining, the quality of our life is reduced proportionally -- a destroyer is bringing our life to ruin!
People often ask me, "What is the ruling demon over our church or city?" They expect me to answer with the ancient Aramaic or Phoenician name of a fallen angel. What I usually tell them is a lot more practical: one of the most pervasive evil influences over our nation is ingratitude!
Do not minimize the strength and cunning of this enemy! Paul said that the Jews who grumbled and complained during their difficult circumstances were "destroyed by the destroyer." Who was this destroyer? If you insist on discerning an ancient world ruler, one of the most powerful spirits mentioned in the Bible is Abaddon, whose Greek name is Apollyon. It means "destroyer" (Rev. 9:11). Paul said the Jews were destroyed by this spirit. In other words, when we are complaining or unthankful, we open the door to the destroyer, Abaddon, the demon king over the abyss of hell!
In the Presence of God
Multitudes in our nation have become specialists in the "science of misery." They are experts -- moral accountants who can, in a moment, tally all the wrongs society has ever done to them or their group. I have never talked with one of these people who was happy, blessed or content about anything. They expect an imperfect world to treat them perfectly.
Truly, there are people in this wounded country of ours who need special attention. However, most of us simply need to repent of ingratitude, for it is ingratitude itself that is keeping wounds alive! We simply need to forgive the wrongs of the past and become thankful for what we have in the present.
The moment we become grateful, we actually begin to ascend spiritually into the presence of God. The psalmist wrote,
"Serve the Lord with gladness; come before Him with joyful singing. . . . Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him, bless His name. For the Lord is good; His lovingkindness is everlasting and His faithfulness to all generations" (Psalm 100:2, 4-5).
It does not matter what your circumstances are; the instant you begin to thank God, even though your situation has not changed, you begin to change. The key that unlocks the gates of heaven is a thankful heart. Entrance into the courts of God comes as you simply begin to praise the Lord.”
“The very reason for nature's existence is the education of the soul; it has no other meaning.”
“The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.”
“The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.”
“The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all.”
Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
“The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development of personal responsibility, is the reason why we object to an unsupervised, unchecked monopolistic control in private hands. We urge control and supervision by the nation as an antidote to the movement for state socialism. Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.”
Source: History as Literature and Other Essays
“The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.”
“The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future.”
“The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.”
Source: Don Quixote
“The very remoteness kindles the imagination of the adventurous hunter. From the top of any mountain the challenge extends far and wide, until the mountains meet the sky.”
“The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.”
“The very rich only admire themselves”
Source: The Paris Wife: A Novel
“The very right to be human is denied every day to hundreds of millions of people as a result of poverty, the unavailability of basic necessities such as food, jobs, water and shelter, education, health care and a healthy environment.”
Source: Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches
“The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest problems humans face: cooperation without kinship”
“The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew, becomes a different book because language is a musical instrument.”
“The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans, they light up in response to social ostracism, just as they would when triggered by physically harmful stimuli. When people speak of feeling hurt or of having emotional pain, they are not being abstract or poetic, but scientifically quite precise.”
“The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium trade [...] combined to make the trade, a valuable source of revenue. In 1864 they joined forces to create causes for war and to promote the terrible War Between the States, also known as the American Civil War.”
“The very same fact about a thing can be both the good and the bad thing about it.”
“The very same night, Hastings removed his wife from court and placed her in a convent sixty miles away, the early modern equivalent of being told to go and stand in the corner and think about what you had done.”
Source: The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
“The very same people who kick you when you are down will worship your triumphant version.”
Source: Success Begins From Where You Are!
“The very same person can, at the very same time, seem at peace to some people, and depressed or even suicidal to some.”
“The very same things that makes some unhappy, are making others happy. It is not the things. It is the way you are thinking about them. You are the one making yourself unhappy or happy. You are the force.”
“The very same woman to whom some men would kill to make love, some man is—or some men are—bored to death of fucking.”
“The very scary thing about religion, to me, is that people actually believe God is who they think He is.”
Source: Searching for God Knows What
“The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.”
Source: Portrait of Myself
“The very secret of life for mewas to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. I had picked a life that dealt with excitement, tragedy, mass calamities, human triumphs and suffering. To throw my whole self into recording and attempting to understand these things, I needed an inner serenity as a kind of balance.”
“The very sense of wondering is God wondering.”
Source: There Is No God and He Is Always with You: A Search for God in Odd Places
“The very sermon that we needlessly miss, may contain a precious word in season for our souls.”
Source: Bible commentary - The gospel of John
“The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line, Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set up a sign.”
Source: The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems
“The very shadows seem to listen.”
“The very shape of our dreams defines us. We learn about the world and try out our thoughts and visions in them. Our dreams goad us and drive us and summon and sustain us and when we are old they comfort us. Magic is a kind of dream, and love is a dream, and hope is a dream. Without our dreams, there is no sweetness, no purpose to life.”
“The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams.”
Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.”
Source: The Sociological Imagination
“The very sight of a daffodil still makes me shiver, because spring in the north of England is always so bitter.”
Source: In Too Deep
“The very sight of a teapot puts a smile on the face of most people. One cannot help but think of more serene and genteel times. From a whimsical child's teapot to an elegant English Teapot, to collectible teapots that adorn some homes, they are a subtle reminder of all that is good in this world.”
“The very small quantum world, it seems, is a mixture of possibilities. The quantum fields to which all particles belong are the sum of these possibilities and, somehow, one possibility is chosen out of all the existing ones just by seeing it, just by the very act of detecting it, whenever one tries to probe a particle's nature. Nobody knows why or how this happens.”
Source: The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond
“The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.”
“The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.”
“The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.”
“The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.”
Source: To the Lighthouse
“The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.”
“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”
Source: Hamlet
“The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.”
Source: The Improvement of the Mind; Or, A Supplement to The Art of Logic. In Two Parts ... Also ... Posthumous Works, Published from His Manuscript, by D. Jennings ... and P. Doddridge