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“We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.”

Perfect Grace Example Ordinary Essence Miracle Shining Everyday Meant To Be Ordinary Life

Book:Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers

Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers

“Spinoza , for example, thought that insight into the essence of reality, into the harmonious structure of the eternal universe, necessarily awakens love for this universe. For him, ethical conduct is entirely determined by such insight into nature, just as our devotion to a person may be determined by insight into his greatness or genius. Fears and petty passions, alien to the great love of the universe, which is logos itself, will vanish, according to Spinoza, once our understanding of reality is deep enough.”

Source: Eclipse of Reason

“Certainly the most obvious . . . example of the strictly infantile essence of America's all-conquering mentality greets our eyes daily, anywhere and everywhere, in the guise of the tabloid newspaper. The tabloid newspaper actually means to the typical American of the era what the Bible is popularly supposed to have meant to the typical Pilgrim Father: viz. a very present help in times of trouble, plus a means of keeping out of trouble via harmless, since vicarious, indulgence in the pomps and vanities of this wicked world.”

“If you got to [abortion] centers, young women are provided very few options, in many places they're not told anything about, for example, adoption services that may be available to them. The idea that, in essence, you come in and it's already pre-determined, this is what place this place does. It provides abortions, and we are going to channel you in this direction.”

Ifs May Doe Ideas Young Example Essence Available Determined Abortion Adoption Young Women

Author:Marco Rubio

“I never wanted to accept the position of the observer who is not involved in the situation. The technique and the aesthetics do not matter to me. Only the essence of what is happening is important to me. Here, for example, blurred pictures, they have appeared because for years I was shooting while being drunk.”

Years Important Matter Wanted Situation Accepting Example Position Involved Happenings Essence Technique Drunk Shooting Observers Aesthetics Being Drunk

Author:Antoine D'Agata

“The major difference frequently is in time. The motion picture, for example, gives you considerably more freedom of expression than does the confined thirty-minute television show. But in essence, they're not that dissimilar.”

Giving Doe Shows Differences Minutes Example Television Expression Majors Essence Thirty Confined Freedom Of Expression Television Shows Motion Pictures

Author:Rod Serling

“Every country that meets Buddhism molds it into their own indigenous religion, as America will. A very clear example of this is Japan, which threw out almost all the dharma, and just kept that essence, which spoke to them.”

Country America Clear Example Buddhism Essence Japan Spokes Indigenous Mold Dharma

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of a concept of seemingly generality is, in essence, the same as a small and concrete special case.”

Science Cases Special Example Source Concepts Essence Mathematics Instance Mathematical Concrete Generalities

Author:Paul Halmos

“.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted to put their children directly in touch with actual cases, teaching them not by hearsay but by actively assaying them, vigorously molding and forming them not merely by word and precept but chiefly by deeds and examples, so that wisdom should not be something which the soul knows but the soul's very essence and temperament, not something acquired but a natural property.”

Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples.”

Two Use Simple Known Plans Teaching Example Essence Two Things Professors Outstanding Lecturer Simple Plan

Author:Wilbert J. McKeachie

“In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.”

People Self Opportunity Moral Sacrifice Military Example Essence Self Sacrifice Moral Courage Rest Of Life

Author:Adam Driver