“Neither an enlightened philosophy, nor all the political wisdom of Rome, nor even the faith and virtue of the Christians availed against the incorrigible tradition of antiquity. Something was wanted, beyond all the gifts of reflection and experience - a faculty of self government and self control, developed like its language in the fibre of a nation, and growing with its growth.” SelfPhilosophyGovernmentWantedChristianPoliticalLanguageNationsGrowthVirtueGrowingReflectionTraditionEnlightenedFacultyRomeSelf ControlAntiquitySelf-governmentIncorrigiblePolitical Wisdom Author:Lord Acton
“Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic” HardLanguageGrowthDevicesDictionaryLiterary Devices Book:The Devil's Dictionary (or The Cynic's Wordbook: Unabridged with all the Definitions) Source: The Devil's Dictionary (or The Cynic's Wordbook: Unabridged with all the Definitions)
“One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin. If it were impossible at times not to note their own growth in grace, it were impossible also to forget that it was all by His power. If they could be persuaded to admit their progress and talk of it at all, the language of their heart would be this: 'If God could do this in me, He could do it in anyone” IfsHeartWould BeMovingLanguageGrowthSinForgetGraceProgressImpossibleConsciousNotesSaintLovelyGraciousSanctityUnawareness Author:Bill Vaughan
“I experienced a lot of spiritual growth when I started traveling to Europe and playing basketball. I saw that just because I was away from home didn't mean Jesus wasn't with me. He is everywhere and you can see signs of Him in the most remote places in the world through people who don't even speak your language. Jesus is universal.” PeopleWorldMeanHomeSpiritualJesusSpeakLanguageGrowthSawsBasketballEuropeUniversalSpiritual GrowthPlaces In The WorldAway From HomePlaying BasketballRemote Places Author:DeLisha Milton-Jones
“A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ... Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.” MindBodyInspirationMotivationLanguageGrowthForestsVocabulary Author:Wade Davis
“Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries; or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown.” MindWellsCountryStatesLanguageGrowthMountainRiversNativeEmpiresRivers And Mountains Author:William Hazlitt
“Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning in many structures to which he is only marginally related. In the village, language and architecture and religion and work and family customs were consistent with one another, mutually explanatory and reinforcing. To grow into one implied a growth into others.” MenLanguageGrowsGrowthModernStructureArchitectureMeaningfulCirclesTraditionalRelatedConsistentCustomsVillageFind MeModern ManImplied Book:Tradition and Revolution Source: Tradition and Revolution
“Economic growth, profitability, prosperity, jobs, increased jobs, increased wages, they're able to get that tax rate down to 15% and we're gonna call it tax relief, not tax breaks, not tax loopholes. It's important to control and reclaim the language here.” ImportantAbleJobsLanguageGrowthBreakEconomicTaxesRateProsperityReliefWagesEconomic GrowthLoopholesProfitabilityTax Breaks Author:Rush Limbaugh