W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are to eat food otherwise we don't live and sometimes we eat food that is very damaging.”
“We are to enjoy what we have while we have it, but we are never to get to the point where we think we could not love without it.”
“We are to extend forgiveness to others in the same way that God did to us: Unconditionally.”
Source: Prayer, the Great Adventure
“We are to feed the new nature on the Word of God constantly, and we are to starve the old nature, which craves the world and the flesh. We are told to “make not provision for the flesh” [Romans 13:14 KJV].”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know.”
Source: I Want to Live These Days with You: A Year of Daily Devotions
“We are to forgive so that we may enjoy God's goodness without feeling the weight of anger burning deep within our hearts. Forgiveness does not mean we recant the fact that what happened to us was wrong. Instead, we roll our burdens onto the Lord and allow Him to carry them for us.”
Source: Landmines in the Path of the Believer: Avoiding the Hidden Dangers
“We are to get wisdom and understanding, yet we are not to lean on it apart from the Lord.”
Source: Leadership Promises for Every Day: A Daily Devotional
“We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.”
Source: Killosophy
“We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are to have no theaters no motion pictures, no books, no public exhibitions of any kind, no speech even which will anyway contravene his limited view of life.”
Source: Hey Rub-a-dub-dub: A Book of the Mystery and Wonder and Terror of Life
“We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is.”
“We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.”
Source: Flight of the Eagle
“We are to live expectantly of how God is going to bathe us in His blessings in this day and time.”
“We are to live in eager expectation of our heavenly inheritance.”
“We are to look for God in each other and love this God, forgetting all else.”
Source: The Hidden Power of the Bible
“We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.”
Source: Honey and Salt: Selected Spiritual Writings of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
“We are to love God fully, unreservedly, with nothing held back.”
Source: Strangely Bright: Can You Love God and Enjoy This World?
“We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that we can feel more divine and worthy than the worldly.”
Source: Killosophy
“We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.”
“We are to make a plan for the day, pray over that plan, and then proceed with that plan. When we are willing to regard the unexpected as God's intervention, we can flex with the new plan, recognizing it as God's plan.”
Source: Loving God with All Your Mind
“We are to make diligent use of the means of grace and make sure our souls are being fed regularly by the Word of God. We have responsibility to be on our faces before God earnestly on a regular basis and never to miss the corporate worship of the people of God unless we are absolutely indisposed.”
Source: Romans: An Expositional Commentary
“We are to order our lives by the light of His Law, not by our guesses about His plan.”
Source: Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God
“We are to Plunder Hell to Populate Heaven for Calvary's sake”
“We are to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will be that as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.”
Source: The Naked Ape
“We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.”
“We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, nor as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame that is to be fed, as an active being that must be strengthened to think and to feel -- and to dare, to do, and to suffer.”
Source: Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses
“We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You take wheat to cast into the Earth's bosom; your wheat may be mixed with chaff, chopped straw, barn-sweepings, dust and all imaginable rubbish; no matter: you cast it into the kind just Earth; she grows the wheat, - the whole rubbish she silently absorbs, shrouds it in, says nothing of the rubbish.”
Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History
“We are to serve everyone we encounter, even those who we might consider "the least."”
“We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise,--God is great! Though He slay me, yet I trust in Him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth.”
“We are to work after no set fashion of high endeavor; but to walk with Jesus, performing, as it were, a ministry on foot, that we may stop at the humblest matter, and prove our fidelity there.”
“We are today a nearly 100% banked country.”
“We are today beginning to see work by very reputable scientists that says the universe is created by our observations. It is not a coincidence; we are actively involved in physically shaping the world that we experience.”
“We are together, all else can be endured.”
Source: Daughter of Moloka'i
“We are told a man must master his emotions, but a heart is not meant for chains. To weep when broken is not a sign of fragility, but an act of nature... the rain that follows the heat of pain. It is not a sign of weakness, but the first step in healing. We must unchain our grief, for the soul cannot heal what it refuses to release.”
“We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception.”
Source: Public Opinion
“We are told by media - books, television, reality shows - that heartbreak is this terrible thing and yet we should seek it. We're told that heartbreak is all about love and we should just go after that high over and over again. We are told it is healthy to be addicted to this kind of behavior and the highs associated with love. But, that's not all what heartbreak is.”
“We are told by the Greek writers that the Indians were the wisest of nations, and in moral wisdom, they were certainly eminent.”
“We are told dogmatically that Evolution is an established fact; but we are never told who has established it, and by what means. We are told, often enough, that the doctrine is founded upon evidence, and that indeed this evidence is henceforward above all verification, as well as being immune from any subsequent contradiction by experience; but we are left entirely in the dark on the crucial question wherein, precisely, this evidence consists.”
Source: Teilhardism And The New Religion: A Thorough Analysis of the Teachings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as the years accumulate, so too do the layers of prejudice, fear and guilt. There comes a time when our personal calling is so deeply buried in our soul as to be invisible. But know that it's still there.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“We are told in some leadership books that work and life are sprints. Others suggest that they are marathons. I look at work and life as relays. Carry the load when it’s your turn, but pass the baton when it’s time.”
Source: Brotherhood is a VERB!: Not Just Another Damn Leadership Book
“We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers, their mothers, and their brothers, to satisfy the brutal lusts of savage men. If there be a god, I pray him to write in his book, opposite my name, that I denied this lie for him.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“We are told it will be of no use for us to ask this measure of justice--that the ballot be given to the women of our new possessions upon the same terms as to the men--because we shall not get it. It is not our business whether we are going to get it; our business is to make the demand.... Ask for the whole loaf and take what you can get.”
“We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”
“We are told not to privilege one story above another. All the stories must be told. Well, maybe that's true, maybe all stories are worth hearing, but not all stories are worth telling.”
Source: Lighthousekeeping
“We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He disabled death itself. That is the formula. That is Christianity. That is what has to be believed.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“We are told that
daggers are murderous
and swords are noble
They both do
the same thing, though”
Source: For the Intellect
“We are told that if you are not occupied with the mind all the time, then you will invite the devil. It is such a heightened misconception that people are going crazy just because of this. An empty mind is not the devil's home but an empty mind is the home of the Buddha.”
“We are told that in the course of this interview Stephens, seeing Lincoln not willing to grant the terms he asked, urged that even Charles I made certain concessions. To this...Lincoln answered: "I am not strong history; I depend mainly on Secretary Seward for that. All I remember of Charles is that he lost his head.”
Source: The Story of the Americans
“We are told that in the course of this interview Stephens, seeing Lincoln not willing to grant the terms he asked, urged that even Charles I made certain concessions. To this...Lincoln answered: "I am not strong on history; I depend mainly on Secretary Seward for that. All I remember of Charles is that he lost his head.”
Source: The Story of the Americans
“We are told that in translation there is no such thing as equivalence. Many times the translator reaches a fork in the translating road where they must make a choice in the interpretation of a word. And each time they make one of these choices, they are taken further from the truth. But what we aren’t told is that this isn’t a shortcoming of translation; it’s a shortcoming of language itself. As soon as we try to put reality into words, we limit it. Words are not reality, they are the cause of reality, and thus reality is always more. Writers aren't alchemists who transmute words into the aurous essence of the human experience. No, they are glassmakers. They create a work of art that enables us to see inside to help us understand. And if they are really good, we can see our own reflections staring back at us.”
“We are told that Louis Pasteur, in the days before he was renowned, would walk in the park, pondering the nature of the “invisible enemy … the Rabies germs,” in order to find a way to kill them. But Pasteur’s idea was not compelling to his contemporaries. We are shown children pointing fingers at him and mocking him, and adults yelling at him that what he attempted was impossible. Pasteur soldiered on, though, and we are all the beneficiaries of that. ...
For every Pasteur, there must be thousands of people who have had an idea that didn’t pan out, as well as countless others whose ideas were good, but never got traction. Science depends on the tenacity of the person with the new idea, even when others take pleasure in mocking it.”