T Quotes
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“Today we have a modern Belshazzar and a modern Pharaoh sitting in Washington D.C.”
“Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and properly functioning societies.
No sensible capitalist would do that.”
“Today we have a weakness in our education process in failing to understand the natural associations between the disciplines. We tend to study all our disciplines in unrelated parallel lines. This tends to be true in both Christian and secular education. This is one of the reasons why evangelical Christians have been taken by surprise at the tremendous shift that has come in our generation.”
Source: Escape from Reason
“Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.”
“Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.”
“Today, we have cheapened what it means to know Jesus by linking belief to a formulaic prayer that magically imports us into a relationship with God.”
Source: Ordinary Radicals: A Return to Christ-Centered Discipleship
“Today we have come to confuse a well-organized government with one that is controlled by the police, rather than from the public's perspective as being the most desirable.”
“Today we have discovered the word that could not be said. "I”
“Today.
We.
Have.
Everything.
You see, we now live in an age where markets—especially those with high purchasing power—are overserved to the point of absurdity.
Let’s start with the fact that we now have over 4 million apps for just about everything—from monitoring your health and tracking your pet’s habits to making harmonica sounds with an iPhone in your mouth or using the chat app Yo—which exists solely to send your friends the word "Yo."
The latter, by the way, managed to raise $1 million in seed funding.”
Source: Raise and Rise: Funding Sources for Your Startup in the Era of Digital Transformation & Blockchain
“Today, we have many ways of defining success in life. Some define it as being a sports hero, others as being wealthy, others as being popular and well liked, and still others as being happy. How does God define success? He defines it as being spiritually mature!”
Source: Biblical Discipleship: Essential Components for Attaining Spiritual Maturity
“Today we have no time, tomorrow we'll be too tired, and the day after tomorrow may never come. If I'm not here tomorrow, today is all we have. No time to waste, no promises to postpone. When time is short and tomorrow holds no promise, with no guarantee of tomorrow, today becomes our only certainty. Live with urgency, love with intensity.”
“Today we have people who think that they are wild and free and crazy because they are engaging in risky, insane, round-the-clock sex, using drugs, defying everything decent in society. But that's not freedom, is it? That's not even anarchy. What it is, is simple conformity. That's all it really is.”
“Today we have the economic collapse that the whole planet is suffering, but there is hope, and that's what's going to keep us moving ahead.”
“Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate. In this respect there was in the past a change of mentality, in which the law and the need for punishment were obscured. Ultimately this also narrowed the concept of law, which in fact is not only just being nice or courteous, but is found in the truth. And another component of the truth is that I must punish the one who has sinned against real love”
“Today we have two Vietnams, side by side, north and south.”
“Today we haved touched Mars. There is life on Mars, and it us us-extensions of our eyes in all directions, extensions of our mind, extensions of our heart and soul have touched Mars today. That's the message to look for there: We are on Mars. We are the Martians!”
“Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.”
Source: Picasso: style and meaning
“Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of Mediocrity. We forget that the very volume of this criticism is an indication that our society is still radically pluralistic. Not only are there plenty of exceptionalists who take exception to the stereotyping of the mass culture but that very string of epithets comes from a series of books that have been recent best-sellers, symptoms of a popular, living tradition of dissent from things as they are.”
“Today we know more about Jupiter than the guy who lives next door to us. We can predict where an election will go, we can turn a gene on or off, and we can even send a robot to Mars, but we are lost if asked to explain or predict the phenomena we might expect to know the most about, the actions of our fellow humans.”
Source: Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do
“Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens - great catastrophes or conflagrations occur frequently - but evolution gives us a perfectly natural explanation of such order as there is. No distinguished astronomer now traces "the finger of God" in the heavens; and astronomers ought to know best.”
Source: The Story of Religious Controversy
“Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.”
“Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.”
“Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.”
“Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.”
Source: Strength to Love
“Today, we lay the pattern for tomorrow.”
“Today, we lay the pattern for tomorrow. Today is the time to change everything, not next week. For Christ’s sake, remember this. Of course, the whole answer is in one neat word: DEATH.”
“Today we live in a cash-for-trash world. Anyone can stand up and say anything unkind, unfair or completely untrue about you, and then they are rewarded financially for it ... because life is unfair.”
“Today we live in a chaos of straight lines, in a jungle of straight lines. If you do not believe this, take the trouble to count the straight lines which surround you. Then you will understand, for you will never finish counting.”
“Today, we live in a culture that wants physical proof. We need something tangible to touch, to see in order for us to believe. But you don’t always have to see to believe. For centuries and up until now, many people are trying to remove God out of this world. Not seeing doesn't mean it is not real. Can we see the air we breathe? Can we touch it? Of course not, we can only feel it.”
Source: Believing is just the Beginning: Discover the Life God Wants You To Have
“Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.”
“Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. We are so busy making things happen that we have little time left to think about the value of what is happening. We urgently need people who concentrate on the meaning of life rather than simply the speed.”
“Today we live in an era where quantum mechanics has been known for over 100 years. Many scientists still struggle to grasp its strangeness, preferring to remain in their comfortable "Goldie Locks" zone of everyday experience.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“Today, we live in the Age of Vice—a corrupt world with heavily populated and polluted cities—thrown into insane competition to earn the pride of our identity in this commercial and materialistic world.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“Today, we'll celebrate Independence Day using the backdrop of the sky as a canvas, the fireworks thrown against it bearing semblance to the drips from the hands of Jackson Pollock but we'll forget that here, in America there are still some who are not free.”
Source: thread, this wordweaver must!
“Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.”
Source: Robinson Crusoe, and A journal of the plague year
“Today we may be living in high-rise apartments with over-stuffed refrigerators, but our DNA still thinks we are in the Savannah. That’s what makes us spoon down an entire tub of Ben & Jerry when we find one in the freezer and wash it down with a jumbo Coke.”
Source: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Today we may face some boring task or idle conversation that feels like a complete waste of time. Perhaps next week or next year we'll understand that nothing is wasted, that in the economy of our universe even a weed is simply a flower whose use has yet to be discovered.”
“Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.”
“Today we must all be aware that protocol takes precedence over procedure.”
“Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.”
“Today we need whatever methods or help we can receive to allow the Christian message to take us to a deeper level of transformation.”
“Today we no longer ask what really goes on in an atom; we ask what is likely to be observed-and with what likelihood-when we subject atoms to any specified influences such as light or heat, magnetic fields or electric currents.”
Source: What Little I Remember
“Today we no longer know what to call art, what its function is and even less what function it will have in the future. We know only that it is something dynamic - unlike many ideas that have governed us.”
“Today we no longer live in a way that is constrained by simple working or leisure environments - we travel, we work on laptops in coffee shops, we go out to dinner straight from work.”
“Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.”
“Today we often use deadlines—real and imaginary—to imprison ourselves.”
Source: Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
“Today we plant trees, tomorrow we enjoy forests.”
“Today we’re all alike, all of us bound together by our shared apathy towards our work. That very apathy has become a passion. The one great collective passion of our time.”
Source: Identity
“Today we're buying designer shoes from a flea market, then reselling them at the mall with a ‘luxury tax”
Source: Quote: +/-
“Today, we’re in times where we acknowledge, boldly, that:
A woman with toned muscles is feminine.
A woman who is dark-skinned is beautiful.
A woman with a strong jawline, or a wide forehead and nose is gorgeous.
A woman with a big toned bum is attractive.
And noone will silence us in our beauty anymore.”