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“It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.”

“When a sinner has any just sense of his condition, as alienated from a holy God, he will not be apt to think of the unpardonable sin.”

Thinking Sin Conditions Holy Sinner Holy God

Book:A PASTOR'S SKETCHES

Source: A PASTOR'S SKETCHES

“Architecture is the constant fight between man and nature, the fight to overwhelm nature, to possess it. The first act of architecture is to put a stone on the ground. That act transforms a condition of nature into a condition of culture; it's a holy act.”

Men Firsts Culture Fighting Conditions Holy Stones Constant Architecture Man And Nature

Author:Mario Botta

“Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.”

Doe States Christian Religious Conditions Particular Duty Holy Perfection

Book:A practical treatise upon Christian perfection

Source: A practical treatise upon Christian perfection

“All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.”

Source: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected works in one volume

“To square the records, however, it should be said that if the Calvinist does not rise as high, he usually stays up longer. He places more emphasis on the Holy Scriptures which never change, while his opposite number (as the newspapers say) tends to judge his spiritual condition by the state of his feelings, which change constantly. This may be the reason that so many Calvinistic churches remain orthodox for centuries, at least in doctrine, while many churches of the Arminian persuasion often go liberal in one generation.”

“[...] We have to realize that this wound [of loneliness] is inherent in the human condition and that what we have to do is walk with it instead of fleeing from it. We cannot accept it until we discover that we are loved by God just as we are, and that the Holy Spirit in a mysterious way is living at the centre of the wound.”

Way Humans Spirit Realizing Walks Accepting Conditions Loneliness Holy Wounds Mysterious Holy Spirit Human Condition Inherent Centre Fleeing Mysterious Ways

Author:Jean Vanier

“The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a Divine Trust, and it must traverse all conditions, for its passage and movement through the conditions of existence will be the means of its acquiring perfections.”

Humans Mean Book Body Spirit Existence Conditions Movement Divine Holy Perfection Appearance Passages Human Spirit Holy Books Traverse

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“In the beginning of his human life man was embryonic in the world of the matrix. There he received capacity and endowment for the reality of human existence. The forces and powers necessary for this world were bestowed upon him in that limited condition. In this world he needed eyes; he received them potentially in the other. He needed ears; he obtained them there in readiness and preparation for his new existence. The powers requisite in this world were conferred upon him in the world of the matrix.”

Men World Humans Book Reality Eye Force Existence Conditions This World Needed Holy Capacity Ears Preparation Human Life Human Existence Readiness Endowment Holy Books Force And Power

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá