“I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.” WantInspirationalMomentsGodCareSpiritualGivenCareersConcernedFollowingHairstyles Book:All Men Are Brothers Source: All Men Are Brothers
“The friends of evangelical doctrine, and the advocates of orthodoxy, have the following objects to keep ever in view in this age; they must take care of their Bibles, that they be not mutilated or curtailed by lawless criticism; they must take care of their theology, that it be not perverted by false philosophy; and they must take care of their pulpits, that they be not occupied by heretical, unspiritual, or incompetent ministers.” PhilosophyCareAgeViewsObjectsCriticismFollowingTake CareTheologyDoctrineMinistersOrthodoxyEvangelicalIncompetentPulpit Book:An Earnest Ministry the Want of the Times Source: An Earnest Ministry the Want of the Times
“Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes of pleasant optimism, in an hour, all the town will be afoot, ready to march to whatever tune the leaders care to play.” IfsMenPlayCareHumanityHoursLeaderFourStreetsStrangeReadyOptimismTownsFollowingPleasantTunesMarchRhymeBannerFondnessProcession Book:John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose Source: John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose
“I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which, if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again, or perhaps any twig with any property that we would care to call consciousness.” IfsHumansLittlesSoulEndsMightCareGrowsResultsConsciousnessProgressRevolutionMessagesRegardPropertyFollowingSeedsTinyStatementsCosmicPredictableKrishnaMantrasPedestalEnd ResultsHaresSmashingTwigsPenetrationAfterthoughtFortuitousHare Krishna Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Finally from the crease of the ravine I am following, there begins to come the trickling and splashing of water. There is a great restfulness in the sounds these small streams make; they are going down as fast as they can, but their sound seem leisurely and idle, as if produced like gemstones with the greatest patience and care.” IfsSeemsCareSoundWaterSeaRiversFishesFollowingBoatStreamsLakesFishingIdleSplashing Author:Wendell Berry
“Following a terrorism-related event, fear and panic can be expected from both patients and health care providers.” CareEventsPatientFollowingTerrorismExpectedHealth CareRelatedPanicProviders Author:Tom Ridge