“Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very conditions confronting us today. The rulers of the earth have realized long ago what potent poison inheres in the Christian religion. That is the reason they foster it; that is why they leave nothing undone to instill it into the blood of the people. They know only too well that the subtleness of the Christian teachings is a more powerful protection against rebellion and discontent than the club or the gun.” PeopleKnowsWellsLongReasonEarthChristianPowerfulChristianityBloodTeachingConditionsTrainingGunSlaveClubsProtectionPoisonRebellionRulersLong AgoDiscontentUndoneAdaptedConfrontingInstillChristian Teaching Author:Emma Goldman
“Dependent Origination is the teaching (that life) is not the mere play of blind chance, but has an existence that is dependent upon conditions. That, precisely with the removal of these conditions, those things that have arisen in dependence upon them-thus also all suffering-must perforce disappear and cease to be.” PlayLife IsSufferingChanceExistenceTeachingConditionsBlindMereDisappearKarmaCeaseDependentDependenceRemoval Author:Gautama Buddha
“It is the grandeur of Christ's character which constitutes the chief power of His ministry, not His miracles or teachings apart from His character. The greatest triumph of the Gospel is Christ Himself--a human body become the organ of the Divine nature, and revealing, under the conditions of an earthly life, the glory of God.” HumansCharacterBodyChristTeachingConditionsDivineGloryMiracleChiefsTriumphOrgansMinistryRevealingHuman BodyGrandeurGlory Of GodDivine Nature Author:Horace Bushnell
“The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no limitations ought to be imposed upon government. The older faith, born of long ages of suffering under man's dominion over man, was that the exercise of unlimited power by men with limited minds and self-regarding prejudices is soon oppressive, reactionary, and corrupt. The older faith taught that the very condition of progress was the limitation of power to the capacity and the virtue of rulers.” MenMindLongSelfGovernmentAgeSufferingBornVirtueProgressTeachingConditionsTaughtOughtExerciseLimitsCapacityEconomicsPrejudiceLimitationRulersUnlimitedDominionReactionariesUnlimited Power Author:Walter Lippmann
“Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and of ideas. This condition is satisfied only as the educator views teaching and learning as a continuous process of reconstruction of experience.” WorldIdeasMatterFactsOrderProcessViewsEducationTeachingConditionsSubjectsInformationSatisfiedExpandingSubject MatterMatter Of FactEducatorReconstructionTeaching And Learning Book:Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition Source: Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition
“The world is full of people who have lost faith: politicians who have lost faith in politics, social workers who have lost faith in social work, schoolteachers who have lost faith in teaching and, for all I know, policemen who have lost faith in policing and poets who have lost faith in poetry. It's a condition of faith that it gets lost from time to time, or at least mislaid.” PeopleKnowsWorldFaithLostSocialTeachingConditionsPoetPoliticianWorkersSocial WorkPolicemenSocial WorkerLost Faith Book:A Taste for Death Source: A Taste for Death
“I realized the universe is 15 billion years old and unspeakably complicated. I still love the teachings of Christ, but I also believe that the human condition prevents us from having any true objective knowledge and understanding of the universe.” YearsBelieveHumansStillsUniverseUnderstandingChristTeachingConditionsComplicatedBillionsI RealizedObjectivesHuman ConditionKnowledge And Understanding Author:Moby
“The strengths a young person finds in adults at this time-their willingness to let him experiment, their eagerness to confirm him at his best, their consistency in correcting his excesses, and the guidance they give him-will codetermine whether or not he eventually makes order out of necessary inner confusion and applies himself to the correction of disordered conditions. He needs freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that he cannot, in fact, make a choice.” NeedsGivingPersonsFactsYoungOrderChoicesTeachingConditionsAdultsExperimentsConfusionGuidanceWillingnessExcessConsistencyCorrectionsCorrectingEagernessFreedom To Choose Author:Erik Erikson
“Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.” YearsPersonsDoneSuccessNextFoundLiteratureBusinessLearningSuccessfulHeardTeachingConditionsNext YearSuccessful PersonAccepting Reality Author:E. W. Howe
“Contemporary American churches in particular do not require following Christ in his example, spirit, and teachings as a condition of membership-either of entering into or continuing in fellowship of a denomination or a local church.... Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have not yet decided to follow Christ.” FactsProblemSpiritChristChurchTeachingConditionsExampleParticularMembersDecidedFollowingLocalsContemporaryContinuingEnteringFellowshipMembershipDenominationsLocal ChurchFollowing Christ Author:Dallas Willard
“It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous capacities of the human condition.” PeopleIfsHumansWould BeTogetherGrowsCommunityWonderfulGroupsTeachingConditionsCapacityEnormousEmpoweringHuman ConditionEvokeTeaching And Learning Author:Jean Houston