W Quotes
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“We cannot go back in time and change the past but we can repent.”
“We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and remove the burden of our sins. His Atonement allows us to leave the past behind and move forward with clean hands, a pure heart, and a determination to do better and especially to become better.”
“We cannot go back to a racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic type of society.”
“We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.”
“We cannot go backward. We cannot erase time and events. But we can go forward, hand in hand, hope in our hearts and love lighting our way.”
Source: Jenna Starborn
“We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them.”
“We cannot go on as we are with 2.6 million people on incapacity benefit, 500,000 of them are under 35. Are we really saying there are half a million people in this country under 35 who are simply too ill to work? I don’t think that’s right.”
“We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn.”
“We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.”
“We cannot go up on a wire. We cannot do a search without a judge on the FISA Court approving it and determining that we have met the standard that has been set forth by Congress in order to utilize these techniques.”
“We cannot govern in a vacuum. The way that - again, part of my leadership style is that we've got to really have voices, diverse voices, at the table, on any given issue, and really figure out what is the best path.”
“We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the concept to the highest degree we are capable of. God's holiness is not simply the best we know infinitely bettered. We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. The natural man is blind to it. He may fear God's power and admire His wisdom, but His holiness he cannot even imagine.”
Source: The Knowledge of the Holy
“We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality.”
“We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.”
“We cannot grow without pain, and by going through pain and surviving, we become examples to the world that they're not alone, that they can overcome their pain as well, and that they can do better and get better.”
“We cannot guarantee the human rights of any oppressed group alone.”
“We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.”
“We cannot hand our faith to one another.... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual.”
Source: The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs
“We cannot handle another year of prejudice, the threat of World War 3, violence around the world, and fearmongering. 2024 must have the elements of catapulting America to a healthy state of mind and global affairs.”
“We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact "right" on people. It has to come from the inside. And that's where the church should be working.”
“We cannot hate those who we despise.”
“We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a particular truth even though it is good for us, as we can hate a particular food even though it is good for us.”
Source: Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction from Saint Thomas Aquinas
“We cannot have a free market since it does not really set us free. It's free for interest, speculation and consumerism to create false needs.”
“We cannot have a healthy economic system if all the money is being invested passively. Active money management is vital to economic well-being.”
“We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.”
“We cannot have a society, in which, if two people wish to communicate the only way that can happen is if it's financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them.”
“We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. If somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what's going to happen when they see a documentary they don't like or news reports they don't like."”
“We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States.”
“We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.”
“We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.”
“We cannot have, but can lose, everything.”
“We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed.”
Source: Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke
“We cannot have faith without belief, but we can believe without having faith. Belief is the foundation of faith. Faith is trusting in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. The scriptures contain many assurances of salvation to those who exercise faith and obey the commandments... Faith is the motivating force that impels action.”
“We cannot have foreign governments interceding in our elections.”
“We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965
“We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.”
Source: Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?
“We cannot have it all. We must live with our limitations. We cannot hold onto life with higher esteem than it deserves. We live only once, a life best served by dedicating ourselves to reducing the suffering of others, not inflicting evilness, taking satisfaction in just being, and recognizing the glory of nature.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.”
Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work
“We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.”
“We cannot have peace on Earth until we learn to speak with one voice. That voice must be the voice of reason, the voice of compassion, the voice of love. It is the voice of divinity within us.”
“We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.”
Source: Gandhiji Expects: What the Father of the Nation Expected of People's Representatives
“We cannot have reckless hope...
Everything that actually happens
happens in the real world,
our real world.
We need to take action,
have hope and faith,
but also learn from what actually occurs...
Another tricky balancing act.
Another contradictory co-existing reality.
Another tightrope dance.”
“We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.”
“We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.”
“We cannot have two masters. They will never agree.”
Source: Waldmeer
“We cannot have what heaven has unless we think like heaven thinks.”
Source: Kingdom Fundamentals: What the Kingdom of God Means and What it Means for You | A Thorough and Biblical Exposition of the Kingdom of Heaven as Preached by Jesus
“We cannot heal the throbbing heart till we discern the wounds within.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. George Crabbe: In Five Volumes
“We cannot heal what we cannot feel.”
Source: Healing the Shame that Binds You
“We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself.”
“We cannot help living in history. We can only fail to be aware of it.”