Best circumstances & order Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D.: With a Memoir of His Life [written by Himself]

“The circumstance that any man could suppose that Matthew when he said, 'Jacob begat Joseph,' or Luke, when he said, 'Joseph was the son of Heli' could refer to the wife of the one, or the daughter-in-law of the other, shows to what desperate stratagems polemical orthodoxy will resort in order to defend an untenable position.”

Source: The creed of Christendom: its foundations and superstructure

“If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts.”

Ifs May Order Silence Higher Circumstances Justify Reserves Our Thoughts Prudence Decorum

Book:Reflections on the French Revolution

Source: Reflections on the French Revolution

“God is bigger than time, dates, and appointments. He wants you to move through this day with a quiet heart, an inward assurance that He is in control, a peaceful certainty that your life is in His hands, a deep trust in His plan and purposes, and a thankful disposition, toward all that He allows. He wants you to put your faith in Him, not in a timetable. He wants you to wait on Him and wait for Him. In His perfect way He will put everything together, see to every detail... arrange every circumstance... and order every step to bring to pass what He has for you.”

“When we are placed in a set of circumstances where we have to take initiative and be creative, some of us find it hard to transition. Those people have been trained not to think but to obey orders. They are slaves to the training, unconsciously pledging allegiance to the average. Mentally they recite from the manual of mediocrity.”

People Thinking Has Beens Hard Order Creative Circumstances Training Slave Average Transition Mediocrity Initiative Be Creative Allegiance Manuals

Book:Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

Source: Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“In the name of religious freedom, relativists have banished religion from the public square. They say they have to destroy public displays of religion in order to protect it. They response has been a culturewide gag order on Christianity in governmental and even commercial circumstances.”

Has Beens Christian Order Names Religious Christianity Circumstances Protect Response Squares Display Religious Freedom Gags

Book:The Age of Consent: The Rise of Relativism and the Corruption of Popular Culture

Source: The Age of Consent: The Rise of Relativism and the Corruption of Popular Culture

“No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.”

Men Persons Order Born Chance Ability Depends Circumstances Noble Merit Distinction Disposition Public Service Parades Ancestry Notorious Amiable Insolence Pedigree

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Just to show you how little reliance can be placed even on what are supposed the best accounts of a battle, I mention that there are some circumstances mentioned in General -'s account which did not occur as he relates them. It is impossible to say when each important occurrence took place, or in what order.”

Littles Important Shows Order Impossible Circumstances Battle Accounts Relate Reliance

Book:The dispatches of ... the duke of Wellington, compiled by lieut. colonel Gurwood. [With] Suppl. to vol. 1/3 [and] Index. [With] Index

Source: The dispatches of ... the duke of Wellington, compiled by lieut. colonel Gurwood. [With] Suppl. to vol. 1/3 [and] Index. [With] Index

“His response is more than sensible. It reflects his understanding that evens unfold as a refelction of precise karmic order and that a benevolent response in all circumstances will be the most healing one. I think he is so universally admired becuase he exemplifies by his behavior the truth that the essence of natural mind, unclouded by greed or anger or delusion, is that of peace.”

Thinking Mind Order Peace Understanding Natural Healing Circumstances Behavior Essence Response Greed Delusion Sensible Precise Benevolent

Author:Sylvia Boorstein

“The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing.”

Inspirational Should Funny Form Order Lines Views Greater Circumstances Battle Sailing Signals Facility

Book:Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)

Source: Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)

“The hardest thing for me to do, and the best thing I've done and learned as an actor is to sacrifice being funny in certain circumstances in order to do something that makes sense for the story or the character, or emotionally.”

Done Character Stories Certain Order Actors Sacrifice Circumstances Hardest Make Sense Best Things Hardest Thing Being Funny

Author:Jonah Hill

“Besides, there is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it. There is, above all, genuine, revolutionary feeling, which is alive everywhere in Russia except where there are Jewish Marxists. I have always made allowance for this circumstance, and given orders that former Communists are to be admitted to the party at once. The petit bourgeois Social-Democrat and the trade-union boss will never make a National Socialist, but the Communist always will.”

“To overcome adverse circumstances, you have to learn to overcome your own hang-ups, values, and idiosyncrasies in order to value other people, cultures, and ideas.”

People Ideas Values Order Culture Circumstances Overcoming Adverse Hang Ups Idiosyncrasies

Author:Anne F. Beiler

“When someone comes under abuse or attack a characteristic response is to blame yourself, especially if you are locked into a relationship of being attacked regularly, and making apologies for your abuser. It actually affects Christians living in Islamic circumstances more, and one Palestinian Christian spoke about that problem of needing to defend Islam in order to protect yourself.”

Ifs Problem Christian Order Circumstances Protect Abuse Blame Response Islam Characteristics Islamic Spokes Apology Locked Palestinian Abusers Protect Yourself

Author:Mark Durie

“We have each chosen the circumstances of our births in order to carry out our soul's purposes. And these purposes can't always be known to our intellects. Nothing happens randomly. And at the same time, we have the ability to become far more powerful and happy and healthy than we ever dreamed possible. At any age.”

Soul Happens Age Purpose Order Ability Powerful Known Birth Circumstances Healthy Intellect Things Happen Chosen

Author:Christiane Northrup

“Catching myself in the moment. Then I remember facts are just facts, circumstances are merely circumstances. Whenever I can catch myself having a negative thought, I do Self I-Dentity through Ho'oponopono by saying to myself the phrases "I love you," "I'm sorry," "Please forgive me," "Thank you" in any particular order.”

I Can Self Moments Facts Remember Order Love You Particular Circumstances Please Negative Forgiving Sorry Phrases I'm Sorry Catching Negative Thoughts Forgive Me Please Forgive Me

Author:Graham Shiels

“If you're blaming something or someone else for the way you are, then that person, those people, those circumstances or those energies, are going to have to change in order for you to get better; that's most likely never going to happen. It's also a way to manipulate other people.”

People Ifs Way Persons Happens Order Energy Circumstances Blame Get Better Manipulate

Author:Wayne Dyer

“We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us. A loving universe makes sure that we go through those things too.”

People World Matter Order Universe Circumstances No Matter What Evolve

Author:Marianne Williamson

“We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.”

Suffering Order Party Achieve Willing Circumstances Tradition Innovation Rejects Discomfort Better Future

Author:Barbara Jordan

“Catholic theology accounts for the fact that there's evil in the world. People say, well, how could God let this happen. Well, what God did was set the mechanism in motion and then allow people to do the best they can under the circumstances that they're dealt in order to gain grace and get into heaven.”

People World Wells Facts Happens Order Evil Heaven Grace Circumstances Gains Accounts Catholic Theology Mechanism Do The Best

Author:Roger Ebert

“If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.”

Ifs Firsts Heart Stills Self Lasts Order Universe Winning Moral Our Lives Stage Circumstances Harmony Breaths Obstacles Developing Constraints Peace Of Heart

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances.”

Order Circumstances Patterns Conformity

Book:Can Humanity Change?: J. Krishnamurti in Dialogue with Buddhists

Source: Can Humanity Change?: J. Krishnamurti in Dialogue with Buddhists

“Nature designed with a random set of genes and circumstances in which we were born. To be happy, we have to accept it and make the most of nature’s design. Are you? Goals will help you do that. I must add, don’t just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life. I use the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order.”

Giving Mean Helping Use Order Goal Born Accepting Careers Successful Design Circumstances Add Genes Academic Balanced Setting Goals Successful Life Mental Peace

Author:Chetan Bhagat

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