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spiritual attitude taken
The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you utter us taken in, and weighed, and measured by your listener, you cannot free yourself from the influence of his presence. You are compelled to have in your thoughts not only the words you utter, but the man to whom they are spoken. You must not only talk, and talk well, but you must talk to him. Charles Dickens
spiritual men animal
Religion, like its votaries, while it exists on earth, must have a body as well as a soul. A religion purely spiritual might suit a being as pure, but men are compound animals; and the body too often lords it over the mind. Charles Caleb Colton
spirit purity spirit-of-god
Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.
spirit existence sweetness
A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.
spiritual victory knees
Whatever brings you to your knees in weakness carries the greatest potential for your personal success and spiritual victory. Charles Stanley
spiritual children use
As God's children, we are not to be observers; we're to participate actively in the Lord's work. Spectators sit and watch, but we are called to use our spiritual gifts and serve continually.
spiritual adversity growth
Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.
spiritual growth events
The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth
spiritual pain believe
Dealing with adversity is like preparing for surgery. By putting our faith in what the doctor has said, we believe we will be better off if we have the surgery. But that does not make it any less painful. By submitting to the hand of a surgeon, we are saying that our ultimate goal is health, even at the cost of pain. Adversity is the same way. It is a means to an end. It is God's tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives.
clarity wilderness skeptical
Of all the things I’d been skeptical about, I didn’t feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me. Cheryl Strayed
clarity liability
Herbert Asquith's clarity is a great liability because he has nothing to say. Arthur Balfour
clarity communicate application
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction. Booker T. Washington
clarity clarity-of-thought substitutes
Mechanical rules are never a substitute for clarity of thought. Brian Kernighan
clarity family grateful life spend time understanding
I'll tell you what I'm grateful for, and that's the clarity of understanding that the most important things in life are health, family and friends, and the time to spend on them. Kenneth Branagh
clarity edward harold joe liked love six speak suppose texts thrill using words
I've always liked texts that you immediately understand. I suppose the playwrights who really speak to me are Edward Bond, Joe Orton and Harold Pinter. I've been in six different Pinter productions - I love the clarity of his language. He has this way of using words - there's a thrill to them. Kenneth Cranham
clarity consistent justice looks strength vision
She had a strength and clarity in the things she said. And a consistent vision of what whole justice looks like. Nadine Smith
clarity investigation communicate
The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education. Antisthenes
clarity meant-to-be
there's no clarity. there was never meant to be clarity. Charles Bukowski
characteristics ifs
If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn? Confucius
characteristics chiefs
It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works. Isaac Asimov
characteristics show-me shows
In no system which shows mental characteristics can any part have unilateral control over the whole. In other words, the mental characteristics of the system are imminent, not in some part, but in the system as a whole. Gregory Bateson
characteristics surroundings mankind
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind. John Maynard Keynes
characteristics humans
There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American. Mark Twain
characteristics cruelty meanness
An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Samuel Johnson
characteristics chaucer intensity
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything. William Hazlitt