“Of course all advance depends upon money, when we depend upon paid workers for any advance. Teach men as one of their first lessons in the gospel that pastoral work and evangelistic work ought to be paid, and will they not believe it? They would all believe it if the Holy Ghost did not dispute our teaching. It is a powerful proof of the presence and grace of the Holy Ghost that they do not all believe it and act accordingly.” IfsMenFirstsBelieveCoursesPowerfulTeachGraceTeachingDependsOughtHolyLessonsPaidWorkersProofGhostDisputesHoly Ghost Book:The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen Source: The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen
“There is at present in the United States a powerful activist movement that is anti-intellectual, anti-science, and anti-technology. If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the Earth, we must depend on the continued revolutions brought about by science.” IfsStatesEarthFacesScienceUnitedPowerfulTechnologyUnited StatesMankindMovementIgnoranceRevolutionDependsIntellectualThriveActivistHave Faith Author:Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
“The habits of feeling, action and judgment that comprise good character depend on personal self-discipline and powerful aspiration to become a good person, all of which must be drawn from within.” PersonsSelfCharacterFeelingsActionPowerfulDependsHabitDisciplineJudgmentAspirationSelf DisciplineGood PersonGood Character Book:Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing Source: Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing
“People dream of making the virtuous powerful, so they can depend upon them. Since they cannot do that, people choose to make the powerful virtuous, glorifying in becoming victimized by them.” PeopleDreamPowerfulDependsBecomingVirtuous Author:Thomas Szasz
“I think that women are powerful and they're multifaceted and they're survivors; they don't have to depend on a man to do the things they needed them to do, whether it was hunting or lifting heavy things, so what's a man's place now? Who knows!” ThinkingKnowsMenPowerfulDependsNeededHeavySurvivorHuntingLiftingHeavy Things Author:Rashida Jones
“Capitalism is a powerful producer of output, crisis-mongering on the left notwithstanding, and this too makes the system seem to have a lot of promise. This is why it is so important to agitate against the system in good times and bad. We can't depend on some super crisis to get folks thinking but instead have to focus on all of the contradictions of the system which cannot be ultimately resolved by it.” ThinkingImportantSeemsLeftPowerfulFocusDependsPromiseCapitalismCrisisFolksProducersContradictionGood TimesOutputAgitate Author:Michael Yates
“Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.” KnowsHandsAnimalPowerfulEnemyCourageDependsWeaponsGunConvictionCowardFistsPowerful Weapons Author:David Seabury
“Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.” YearsAbleRoomsPowerfulDependsVolumeInspiring Writing Author:Susan Sontag