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“I wish to preface my reflections by saying that I am conducting this prayer service and am speaking to you now with great reluctance. I did not seek to enter any controversy and I don't relish being part of one. But I have given this matter a great deal of thought and prayer, which has led me to the conviction that God is calling me to speak out and conduct these prayers.”

Matter Speak Given Wish Prayer Deals Calling Reflection Conviction Controversy Relish Speaks Out Conducting Reluctance Thoughts And Prayers

Author:Thomas J. Paprocki

“A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when given ("qu'on lui donne", Fr.) a great cause to defend, and he will find only natural to sacrifice oneself for it.”

Men Self Given Causes Natural Simple Sacrifice Possibility Benefits Reflection Everyday Oneself Engaged Everyday Life Self Sacrifice Donne

Author:African Spir

“No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.”

Needs Made Important Given Clear Reflection Perfection Roots Conviction Deeper Noble Pursuit Resolution Happy Life Bearable

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Dramatically at first - that's how I handle emotional pain. If there were an award given for these moments, then I would have a mantle full of gold statuettes. Then I take stock and seek counsel from people I trust and talk myself into a state of reflection and remember that it won't last forever.”

People Ifs Firsts States Moments Pain Lasts Remember Given Forever Emotional Reflection Gold Handle Awards Emotional Pain

Author:Danielle Cormack

“It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.”

Kind Desire Given Example Divine Reflection Appearance Symbols Perceive Related Identical

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet, so deadly sad, that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank, something like then world when the deluge was gone by.”

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom. Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace”

Way Kind Hard Enough Given Doors Conditions Loneliness Solitude Reflection Ideals Convinced Foolish Convince Tranquility Something Better Enough Time Equilibrium

Book:The Good Guy

Source: The Good Guy

“All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find [...] a being which immediately recognises itself, [...] and which knows its own existence, not by observation and as a given fact, nor by inference from any idea of itself, but through direct contact with that existence. Self-consciousness is the very being of mind in action.”

Knows Mind Ideas Self Facts Action Given Existence Consciousness Reflection Direct Roots Contact Observation Recognise Self Consciousness Inference

Book:Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings

Source: Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings

“Suddenly so many things she'd overheard her brothers and Quinn saying when Grimm had been in residence made sense, and upon reflection she suspected a part of her had always known. Her love was a legendary warrior who had grown to despise himself, cut off from his roots. But now that he was home and given the time to explore those roots, he might be able to make peace with himself at long last.”

Long Made Home Might Able Lasts Given Known Cutting Brother Reflection Roots Warrior Despise Making Peace Legendary Residence Grimm Quinn

Book:The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle

Source: The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle

“She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not take seriously the intellectual decline. Having given up the Empire and the mass production of industrial goods, Britain's future lay in its scientific and artistic pre-eminence. Mrs Thatcher will be long remembered for the damage she has done.”

“It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known.”

People Has Beens Real Given Voice Known Opinion Reflection Occasions Deliberate Public Opinion

Book:The writings of George Washington

Source: The writings of George Washington

“I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.”

Thinking Mean Self Given Empathy Reflection Rap Poetic Libertarianism Self Reflection Hedonism Destructiveness

Author:Courtney Love

“My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the keys of which had, until then, never been given to me. It was a room I had always wanted to enter and where he was moving freely and fully at ease.”

Firsts Dream Wanted Film Moving Found Language Given Felt Rooms Knowing Doors Keys Reflection Discovery Standing Miracle Ease Capture

Author:Ingmar Bergman

“Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality.”

Ifs Reality Given Reflection Function Selection Terminology Deflection

Book:Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method

Source: Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method

“Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self-inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.”

“To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations.”

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.”

Knows Matter Given Liberty Enemy Democracy Eternal Reflection Sober

Author:H. L. Mencken

“When hungry, do not throw yourself upon food - else you will overload your heart and body. Eat slowly, without avidity, with reflection to the glory of God, remembering the God Who feeds us, and above all His incorruptible food, His Body and Blood, that out of love He has given Himself to us in food and drink, remembering also the holy word of the Gospel.”

Heart Body Christian Remember Given Blood Drink Holy Glory Reflection Hungry Orthodox Orthodox Christian Glory Of God Food And Drink Overload

Author:John of Kronstadt

“It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.”

People Given Numbers Creative Creation Involved Limits Degrees Reflection Optimism Regard Limitation Generosity Time Limit

Author:Earle Brown

“What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.”

Knows Book Given Results Reflection

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell to all this; the common opinion is enough for me. For, as I was saying, I want to know not about this, but about myself: am I a monster more complicated and swollen with passion than the serpent Typho, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, to whom Nature has given a diviner and lowlier destiny?”

“What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.”

Moments Given Pure Essentials Reflection

Book:Husserl, shorter works

Source: Husserl, shorter works

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