W Quotes
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“We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.”
“We often hear the teachers of all creeds lamenting the difficulty of keeping up in the minds of believers a lively apprehension of the truth which they nominally recognize, so that it may penetrate the feelings, and acquire a real mastery over the conduct.... When it has come to be a hereditary creed, and to be received passively, not actively ... there is a progressive tendency to forget all of the belief except the formularies ... until it almost ceases to connect itself at all with the inner life of the human being.”
“We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition unrelated to its subject. Just as there is no such thing as 'artistic' art, so there is no such thing as 'positional' chess.”
“We often hold on to someone who actually wants us to let go.”
“We often hug whom we can't kiss.”
“We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly myth. The justices of the Supreme Court are themselves actors in the struggle for power, and when they intervene, they think carefully about how their decisions will affect the courts own legitimacy and authority.”
“We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.”
“We often intensify our unhappiness by being ashamed of being unhappy.”
“We often joked that the god of love had missed his mark, that his arrow had sailed past us in some cosmic mistake.”
Source: Ashen Embrace (Divine Destinies
“We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to think about how each person will live there; you can't just think about abstract ideas.”
“We often laughed at others in our house, and I picked up the craft of being polite while people were present and laughing later if there was anything to laugh about.”
Source: Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography
“We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.”
Source: The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir
“We often leave the most precious personal direction of the Spirit unheard because we do not record and respond to the first promptings that come to us when the Lord chooses to direct us.”
“We often live as if our happiness depended on having. But I don't know anyone who is really happy because of what he or she has. True joy, happiness, and inner peace come from the giving of ourselves to others. A happy life is a life for others. That truth, however, is usually discovered when we are confronted with our brokenness.”
Source: Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
“We often live in the past a lot more than we probably realize.”
“We often look at our parents like superheroes. We think they can do no wrong. They raise us, protect us, and care for us. Then, we get to a certain age and realize our parents are only humans. They make mistakes, just like we do.”
Source: The Other Brother
“We often look for kindness back in the same place we gave it, and mostly that is where we go wrong.
Kindness does not work that way, you put your kind deeds into the universe and the universe reflects back that energy into your life, from unexpected avenues at most appropriate times.”
“We often look outside to find our hero when there is one inside of each of us. Be your own hero today.”
“We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.”
Source: Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings
“We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.”
“We often lose ourselves to where we think we should be, rather than celebrate where we already are.”
“We often make people pay dearly for what we think we give them.”
“We often make the grave theological mistake of equating the sovereignty of God and everything happening in the earth realm as being 'His Will'.”
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 often make the mistake of equating wealth with intelligence, knowledge, and wisdom. This is where our judgment is often clouded. We tend to overlook the inherent traits of a person and instead, focus on their material possessions. This leads us to misjudge people and things in life. We fail to acknowledge the true value of a person by simply recognizing their wealth. This is where we fall short. Instead, we should focus on the intrinsic qualities of a person, such as their intelligence, knowledge, and wisdom. These qualities are far more valuable than any amount of money.”
Source: Science Behind A Perfect Life
“We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.”
“We often marvel at how introverted, geeky, kid 'blossom' into secure and happy adults. We liken it to a metamorphosis. However, maybe it's not the children who change but their environments. As adults they get to select the careers, spouses, and social circles that suit them. They don't have to live in whatever culture they'er plunked into.”
Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“We often miss hearing God's voice simply because we aren't paying attention.”
“We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work”
“We often mistake letting go for giving up. Knowing the difference between
the two can make all the difference in the end.”
Source: Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
“We often mistake the original part of ourselves for a weakness.”
“We often mock Barack Obama for whining about Fox News. So it's now what Donald Trump is doing? Should we be mocking him for doing the same thing? I know. It is hypocritical if we don't.”
“We often move away from pain, which is helpful only before being hurt. Once in pain, it seems the only way out is through. Like someone falling off a boat, struggling to stay above the water only makes things worse. We must accept we are there and settle enough so we can be carried by the deep. The willingness to do this is the genesis of faith, the giving over to currents larger than us. Even fallen leaves float in lakes, demonstrating how surrender can hold us up.”
Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)
“We often need reminding even if we do not often need educating.”
“We often need to be refreshed.”
“We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.”
Source: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
“We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to pick up a temporary knowledge of an art or science, of which they understood nothing till their brief was delivered, and appear to be much masters of it.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“we often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of artisans starving for want of employment.”
Source: The Theory of Political Economy
“We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.”
“We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do not give our hearts away for the good we wish to do, but for that we expect to receive.”
“We often piddle our time away in disconnected activities that do not yield progress toward a higher purpose. Remain focused.”
“We often pity someone we ought to envy, or envy someone we ought to pity.”
“We often pity the poor, because they have no leisure to mourn their departed relatives, and necessity obliges them to labor through their severest afflictions: but is not active employment the best remedy for overwhelming sorrow--the surest antidote for despair? It may be a rough comforter: it may seem hard to be harassed with the cares of life when we have no relish for its enjoyments; to be goaded to labor when the heart is ready to break, and the vexed spirit implores for rest only to weep in silence: but is not labor better than the rest we covet? and are not those petty, tormenting cares less hurtful than a continual brooding over the great affliction that oppresses us? Besides, we cannot have cares, and anxieties, and toil, without hope--if it be but the hope of fulfilling our joyless task, accomplishing some needful project, or escaping some further annoyance.”
Source: Agnes Grey
“We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels.”
“We often praise 'the ability to multi-task.' While you can learn when you divide your attention, divided attention doesn't lead to aiding change in your brain maps [lasting changes].”
“We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart
“We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.”
Source: The Outlook
“We often pray to be better, when in truth we only want to feel better.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“We often pray to Jesus; we pray to the Father, especially in the 'Our Father'; but not often to the Holy Spirit....Pray often to the Holy Spirit so that He may help us, give us the strength, give us the inspiration and lead us forward.”
“We often pray to the stars above, to help us find somebody to love.”
“We often prefer love for humans to love for God.”