“Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.” WorldMayBodyProcessUnderstandingFixedOur WorldFlawedComprehensionUnchangingUnderstanding GodPartial Truth Author:Gene Robinson
“The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed in their old perceptual attitudes.” MayMeanPlayArtistAttitudeAudienceMajorityExperimentsFixedArranging Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.” MindMayStrongSolitudeImpressionFixedPenetrate Book:Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart Source: Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart
“A key difference between a dialogue and an ordinary discussion is that, within the latter people usually hold relatively fixed positions and argue in favor of their views as they try to convince others to change. At best this may produce agreement or compromise, but it does not give rise to anything creative.” PeopleGivingTryingMayDoeDifferencesViewsCreativePositionProduceKeysOrdinaryArguingFavorsDialogueCompromiseDiscussionFixedConvinceLatterAgreement Author:David
“In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given line by which he may chart his course, only one limit: the past.” MayPastCoursesGivenLinesPossibilityLimitsFixedStanding OutInitials Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.” WayMayFoundGivenForceWaterMovementObjectsListeningLimitsFunctionSakeBoundariesFixedHelpfulListenersFulfillingDefiniteCentreConfinedTalkersCanalsRestrainingErratic Author:Charles Dickens