“Faith then, in its relation to salvation, is that confidence by which we accept it as a free gift from the Saviour, and is the only possible way in which the gift of God could be appropriated.” WayAcceptingRelationSalvationSaviourGift From GodFree Gifts Book:Sermons Source: Sermons
“in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.” IfsWorldWantFirstsLongFactsIndividualTermRaceAcceptingGroupsPolicyRacismRelationLimitationLong TermGesturesDoomedBetter PlaceRace Relations Book:Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro
“For creation is not a change, but that dependence of the created existence on the principle from which it is instituted, and thus is of the genus of relation; whence nothing prohibits it being in the created as in the subject. Creation is thus said to be a kind of change, according to the way of understanding, insofar as our intellect accepts one and the same thing as not existing before and afterwards existing.” WayKindSaidUnderstandingExistenceAcceptingPrinciplesSubjectsCreationRelationIntellectDependence Author:Thomas Aquinas
“Now it is usual-but not to say normal-for people to interest themselves primarily in means, without noticing that means exist only in relation to ends and that, in accepting certain means, they unconsciously accept the ends that make them so. In other words, they accept whatever philosophy happens to be embodied in the values and institutions of a particular civilation.” PeopleMeanEndsPhilosophyHappensCertainValuesInterestAcceptingParticularNormalRelationInstitutionsUsualNoticing Author:Georges Canguilhem
“We have very stable mechanisms of conflict resolution in terms of labor relations, we have a very good transportation infrastructure, we provide our children with an excellent education and the gap between rich and poor in Germany is relatively narrow. On the other hand, we have trouble accepting change.” ChildrenHandsTermPoorAcceptingRichTroubleConflictLaborRelationOur ChildrenVery GoodExcellentGermanyResolutionGapsMechanismStableInfrastructureTransportationRich And PoorConflict ResolutionAccepting ChangeExcellent EducationTransportation Infrastructure Author:Angela Merkel
“A crowd thinks in images, and the image itself calls up a series of other images, having no logical connection with the first...A crowd scarcely distinguishes between the subjective and the objective. It accepts as real the images invoked in its mind, though they most often have only a very distant relation with the observed facts....Crowds being only capable of thinking in images are only to be impressed by images.” ThinkingMindFirstsRealFactsAcceptingCapableConnectionsRelationSeriesCrowdsObjectivesLogicalImpressedSubjective Author:Gustave Le Bon
“To will the obligatory in relation to death is to fall in line with the major immutable cycles of Nature, especially human nature, and to understand that (whether or not there is a purpose or meaning to life or a life of the spirit beyond the life of the body) no one, absolutely no one, escapes being finite and mortal. And knowing this, and then to accept it, to will it, and not to be in an unnecessary state of angst or rebellion or terror over it.” HumansStatesBodySpiritPurposeFallLinesAcceptingKnowingHuman NatureMajorsRelationTerrorMortalsCyclesOver ItRebellionUnnecessaryFiniteAngstMeaning Life Author:Edwin S. Shneidman