“The dreams of the self are manifold and endless and they exist in all the myriad worlds and conditions that appear to have solidity. When you're dreaming at night, something seems very real, but when you wake up the dream is gone and so is all that apparent solidity.” WorldRealSelfDreamSeemsNightGoneConditionsWake UpEndlessHinduismManifoldSolidityDreaming At Night Author:Frederick Lenz
“A society which is clamouring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable to bear the conditions of choice.” GivingPhilosophyChoicesGoneGenerationsGroupsEconomicConditionsBearsFilledSalvationChosenBrandsVarietyNew Generation Book:Coming of Age in Samoa Source: Coming of Age in Samoa
“Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; friendships formed without prayer; the daily act of prayer itself hurried over, or gone through without heart: these are the kind of downward steps by which many a Christian descends to a condition of spiritual palsy, or reaches the point where God allows them to have a tremendous fall.” HeartKindChristianSpiritualFallPrayerStepsGoneHeardJourneyConditionsChosenSermonsResidence Book:PRACTICAL RELIGION Source: PRACTICAL RELIGION
“I know it sounds hard to believe, but habits laid down by our ancestors persist even after the conditions that created those habits have gone away.” KnowsBelieveHardSoundGoneConditionsHabitAncestorPersistHard To BelieveGone Away Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world.” ThinkingMenWorldHumansKindReasonPhilosophyWholeUseMightLawSimpleChristianityGoneSawsConditionsDivineMoralityDegreesAuthorityCapacityReasonableFlatteredHuman ReasonSurpassing Book:The Works of John Locke: In Nine Volumes Source: The Works of John Locke: In Nine Volumes
“The peoples of the old world have their cities built for times gone by, when railroads and gunpowder were unknown. We can have cities for the new age that has come, adopted to its better conditions of use and ornament. We want, therefore, a city planning profession.” WorldWantUseAgeCitiesGoneConditionsBuiltProfessionPlanningAdoptedNew AgeOrnamentsRailroadsOld WorldGunpowderCity PlanningTimes Gone By Author:Horace Bushnell
“What can prevent the coming of totalitarian socialism is only a thorough change in ideologies. What we need is an open positive endorsement of that system to which we owe all the wealth that distinguished our age from the conditions of ages gone by.” NeedsAgeWealthGoneConditionsSocialismIdeologyDistinguishedThoroughEndorsements Author:Ludwig von Mises