Best circumstances & conversation Quotes

“We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.”

People Men America Political Heaven Easy Interest Information Circumstances Conversation Respect Improvement Every Man Enlightened Leisure

Book:The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author

“Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.”

Circumstances Conversation Independent Sentences

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics of that matter in measuring my life. This realization, which occurred nearly fifteen years ago, guided me every day to seek opportunities to help people in ways tailored to their individual circumstances. My happiness and my sense of worth has been immeasurably improved as a result.”

“It is possible for us to live in the very sense of the Lord's presence, under even the most difficult circumstances. If you and I are going to enjoy the peace of paradise during this life we must become accustomed to a familiar, humble, and very affectionate conversation with the Lord Jesus.”

Ifs Jesus Enjoy Difficult Lord Circumstances Conversation Humble Familiar This Life Paradise Accustomed Affectionate Difficult Circumstances

Author:Brother Lawrence

“That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.”

Men Pay Company Subjects Circumstances Conversation Regard Guilty Discourse Impertinence

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television.”

“In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with you in the days of ordinary conversation and in the circumstances of secular employment.”

Self Circumstances Conversation Ordinary Accounts Employment Resolution Secular Examination Solemnity Self-examination

Book:Readings for every day in Lent

Source: Readings for every day in Lent

“The holidays often bring challenging conversations and situations. Sometimes holiness demands that we speak, other times it invites us to be silent. In all circumstances, though, we are called to love.”

Sometimes Speak Challenges Situation Circumstances Conversation Demand Silent Holiness Holiday Invites

Author:Mark Hart

“If you can give people happiness, you're in their hearts. Now you can just start having conversations with people that you would not have had under other circumstances.”

People Ifs Giving Heart Circumstances Conversation

Author:June Millington

“The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.”

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