“The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner's bench.” IfsLooksTwoRealHomeChristianityLordFitTestsTablesCoffeeCupsSundayBreakfastHypocriteBenchesPiousCoffee Cup Author:Vance Havner
“For Singapore, its test for its own democracy must be whether it fit and serve the interests of its people and conditions, and not serve some abstract ideal that the Western media thought it ought to conform to. If in 10 years, Philippines, Taiwan and Korea were better societies because they adopted the US model, Singapore would hurry to catch.” PeopleIfsYearsInterestDemocracyConditionsMediaOughtFitModelsIdealsTestsWesternAbstractConformAdoptedKoreaSingaporePhilippinesTaiwanWestern Media Author:Goh Chok Tong
“Prophecy and prescience - How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What are the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of the knife?” MayDoeFacesLinesDecisionFitWeaknessTestsFaultsBlowProphetKnivesDiamondInherentProphecyPredictionsGemsUnanswered QuestionsUnansweredCuttersCleavageShaping The Future Author:Frank Herbert
“[Pragmatism's] only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life best and combines with the collectivity of experience's demands, nothing being omitted.” WayTruthFitTruth IsDemandTestsParts Of LifePragmatismCollectivity Book:Pragmatism Source: Pragmatism
“You will have no test of faith that will not fit you to be a blessing if you are obedient to the Lord. I never had a trial but when I got out of the deep river I found some poor pilgrim on the bank that I was able to help by that very experience.” IfsHelpingAbleFoundPoorLordFitBlessingRiversTestsTrialsObedientPilgrimTest Of Faith Author:A. B. Simpson
“How to Tell If Shoes Fit: Walking around the shoe store is not going to tell you any more than test-driving a car around a showroom. And those little mirrors? That's so you can tell how your cat is going to like your shoes. The real way to tell how shoes fit is how badly you want them.” IfsWayWantLittlesRealCarLike YouFitWalkingCatTestsMirrorsShoesStoresDrivingIf The Shoe FitsShowroom Author:Mimi Pond
“There is a parallel between the twos and the tens. Tens are trying to test their abilities again, sizing up and experimenting to discover how to fit in. They don't mean everything they do and say. They are just testing. . . . Take a good deal of your daughter's behavior with a grain of salt. Try to handle the really outrageous as matter-of-factly as you would a mistake in grammar or spelling.” TryingMeanMatterAbilityDealsMistakeFitBehaviorDaughterTestsHandleSaltGrainTestingGrammarParallelsOutrageousSpellingYour DaughterGrain Of Salt Author:Stella Chess
“We are creating a one size fits all system that needlessly brands many young people as failures, when they might thrive if offered a different education whose progress was measured differently. Paradoxically we're embracing standardized tests just when the economy is eliminating standardized jobs.” PeopleIfsDifferentMightJobsYoungEconomyProgressFitCreatingTestsSizeBrandsThriveEliminatingOne Size Fits All Author:Robert Reich
“Women and men will have to go through the same physical test before they get into these ground combat jobs, and the test will increase over time for again both Marine Corps and the Army just to make sure everyone is physically fit enough to go through these jobs, to get through this training.” MenEnoughJobsFitTrainingMen And WomenTestsIncreaseArmyCombatMarineMarine CorpsPhysically Fit Author:Renee Montagne
“The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.” PeopleWorldMatterCompanyStudyLike YouFitStandardsTestsPerformancesPopulationEmployeeScoreClassroomBellsCurvesDeviationTest ScoresReally Like You Author:Simon Sinek