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“Faith then, in its relation to salvation, is that confidence by which we accept it as a free gift from the Saviour, and is the only possible way in which the gift of God could be appropriated.”

Way Accepting Relation Salvation Saviour Gift From God Free Gifts

Book:Sermons

Source: Sermons

“in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.”

Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro

“For creation is not a change, but that dependence of the created existence on the principle from which it is instituted, and thus is of the genus of relation; whence nothing prohibits it being in the created as in the subject. Creation is thus said to be a kind of change, according to the way of understanding, insofar as our intellect accepts one and the same thing as not existing before and afterwards existing.”

Way Kind Said Understanding Existence Accepting Principles Subjects Creation Relation Intellect Dependence

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“Now it is usual-but not to say normal-for people to interest themselves primarily in means, without noticing that means exist only in relation to ends and that, in accepting certain means, they unconsciously accept the ends that make them so. In other words, they accept whatever philosophy happens to be embodied in the values and institutions of a particular civilation.”

People Mean Ends Philosophy Happens Certain Values Interest Accepting Particular Normal Relation Institutions Usual Noticing

Author:Georges Canguilhem

“We have very stable mechanisms of conflict resolution in terms of labor relations, we have a very good transportation infrastructure, we provide our children with an excellent education and the gap between rich and poor in Germany is relatively narrow. On the other hand, we have trouble accepting change.”

“A crowd thinks in images, and the image itself calls up a series of other images, having no logical connection with the first...A crowd scarcely distinguishes between the subjective and the objective. It accepts as real the images invoked in its mind, though they most often have only a very distant relation with the observed facts....Crowds being only capable of thinking in images are only to be impressed by images.”

Thinking Mind Firsts Real Facts Accepting Capable Connections Relation Series Crowds Objectives Logical Impressed Subjective

Author:Gustave Le Bon

“To will the obligatory in relation to death is to fall in line with the major immutable cycles of Nature, especially human nature, and to understand that (whether or not there is a purpose or meaning to life or a life of the spirit beyond the life of the body) no one, absolutely no one, escapes being finite and mortal. And knowing this, and then to accept it, to will it, and not to be in an unnecessary state of angst or rebellion or terror over it.”

Humans States Body Spirit Purpose Fall Lines Accepting Knowing Human Nature Majors Relation Terror Mortals Cycles Over It Rebellion Unnecessary Finite Angst Meaning Life

Author:Edwin S. Shneidman

“Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or moral convenience, whether from the political left or right. For nature's fascism is greater than that of any society. There is a daemonic instability in sexual relations that we may have to accept.”

May Political Left Social Sex Imagination Emotion Accepting Moral Greater Relation Code Fixed Fascism Convenience Auras Instability Mystique

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

“The classics of Marxism talked of communism as a society to which a modern society should aspire, a society truly fair, where the relations of monetary exchange were not the priority but one wher the people's needs could be satisfied, and where people would not be worth more according to how much monetary wealth they acquired. Instead their value would be based on their contribution to society as a whole. It would be a society without class that would accept people based on their capabilities and their potential to contribute to that society.”

“We see and realise that the political situation in the United States is influenced by those who have lost the elections but refuse to accept their defeat, and who continue to use the anti-Russia card and various allegations most actively in the political infighting. This is why we are in no hurry, we are ready to wait, yet we strongly hope that Russian-US relations will become normal again sometime in the future.”

Political Waiting Situation Accepting Relation Election Defeat Various Realising

Author:Vladimir Putin

“We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.”

World Should Facts Common Accepting Youth Communication Standards Ideals Should Have Relation Transport

Author:Juliette Gordon Low

“Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.”

Ifs Feelings Would Be Black White Accepting Relation Black And White Vocal

Author:Sarah Silverman

“Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.”

Christ Accepting Virtue Grace Eternal Relation Saving Receiving Justification Eternal Life God's Grace Sanctification Justification By Faith

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in a place for a duration that is itself a kind of void in time; then you reappear, in a place and in a moment with no relation to the where and when in which you vanished.”

Kind Moments Space Accepting Crosses Opposites Relation Gaps Void Duration

Author:Italo Calvino

“Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.”

Men Reality Past Accepting Relation Acknowledge Instant Lazy Laziness Neighbour Impatient Impatience

Author:W. H. Auden

“The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since the statistician can seldom or never make experiments for himself, he has to accept the data of daily experience, and discuss as best he can the relations of a whole group of changes; he cannot, like the physicist, narrow down the issue to the effect of one variation at a time. The problems of statistics are in this sense far more complex than the problems of physics.”