Building Quotes - Page 37

• ... you... are stones of the temple of the Father, prepared for the Father's building, and drawn up on high by the instrument of Jesus Christ, which is the Cross (cf. Jn. 12:32), making use of the Holy Spirit as a rope, while your faith was the means by which you ascended, and your love the way which led up to God. You, therefore, as well as all your fellow-travelers, are God-bearers, temple-bearers, Christ-bearers, bearers of holiness, adorned in all respects with the commandments of Jesus Christ.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Christian, Jesus, Father

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• ... where Solomon says that 'Wisdom has built herself a house' (Prov. 9:1), he refers darkly in these words to the preparation of the flesh of the Lord: for the true Wisdom did not dwell in another's building, but built for Itself that dwelling-place from the body of the Virgin.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Christian, Dwelling Place, House

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• Money is one form of power. But what is more powerful is financial education. Money comes and goes, but if you have the education about how money works, you gain power over it and can begin building wealth. The reason positive thinking alone does not work is because most people went to school and never learned how money works, so they spend their lives working for money.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Powerful, School, Positive Thinking

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.29, Robert Kiyosaki

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• The Holy Spirit, in the variety of his gifts, unites us and enables us to contribute to the building up of the Church in holiness. In this great work, each of us has a part to play; each of us, as a "living stone", is needed for the growth and the beauty of God's holy temple. Let us ask the Lord to help us to take an ever more active part in the Church's life and mission, guided by the Holy Spirit and with Jesus as our cornerstone.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Building Up, Play

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• A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building.

  Chanakya

  Greatness, Men, Eagles

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• There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters are of that.

  Lamar Alexander

  War, Iraq, Numbers

  "News From CNN" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. November 16, 2004.

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• The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on economical principles. The value of matter depends solely on its capacities of expressing ideas.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Ideas, Differences

  Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• We Christians bring peace and grace as a treasure to be offered to the world, but these gifts can bear fruit only when Christians live and work together in harmony. This makes it easier to contribute to building relations of respect and peaceful coexistence with those who belong to other religious traditions, and with non-believers.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Religious, Grace

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• It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Struggle, Character, Humanity

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• Every one of us needs a home. The world needs a home. There are so many young people who are homeless. They may have a building to live in, but they are homeless in their hearts. That is why the most important practice of our time is to give each person a home.

  Nhat Hanh

  Home, Heart, Practice

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2000). “Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers”, p.52, Penguin

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• The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.

  Sue Grafton

  Taken, Character, Insomnia

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• The greatest satisfaction, I think, is when a building opens and the public possesses it and you cut the umbilical cord and you see it taking on its own life. There’s no greater satisfaction.

  Moshe Safdie

  Cutting, Thinking, Umbilical Cord

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• Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.

  Jay Samit

  Years, Careers, People

  "Disrupt You! Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation". Book by Jay Samit, July 7, 2015.

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• For Noah, preaching 120 years without results meant choosing the hard road year after year. Nehemiah, building the wall of Jerusalem, faced constant harassment by enemies from within and without. We cannot honestly, authentically, reasonably and deliberately serve our Lord without our willingness to accept difficulties and inconveniences.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Wall, Years, Enemy

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• Building a wardrobe is like building a circle of friends your whole life.... Your own beauty is to be yourself, but of course we need tools and accessories.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Being Yourself, Circles, Needs

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• The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems.

  Markus Zusak

  Distance, Sky, Cities

  Markus Zusak (2011). “Underdogs”, p.255, Scholastic Inc.

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• People of peace, men and women of desire, such is the splendor of the Temple in which you will one day have the right to take your place. Such privilege should astonish you less, however, than your ability to commence building it down here, your ability, in fact, to adorn it at every moment of your existence. Remember the saying 'as above, so below', and contribute to this by making 'as below, so above'.

  Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

  Men, People, Desire

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• In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings. You write a letter to the editor.

  Michelle Malkin

  Suicide, Writing, Gun

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• If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.

  Joseph Campbell

  Believe, Looks, Want

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• Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

  Louis Sullivan

  Single, Unique, People

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• All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Stones, Individual, Placement

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• The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.

  Alan Watts

  Art, Light, Sculpture

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Everybody deserves a shot at playing sports. It shouldn't matter in the least if that person is gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. Building community through healthy and inclusive activities should be one of the main focuses behind athletics, and that isn't possible if you exclude LGBT individuals, especially our youth.

  Mardy Fish

  Sports, Gay, Bisexual

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• Your vision of your future will help you press forward. Take a few minutes to envision where you want to be in one year or two or five. Then take action to prepare yourselves. People don’t just run a marathon when they decide to do it. They must train daily, slowly building stamina and endurance to run the 26.2-mile distance. So it is with life. It is daily diligence with prayer and scripture study that will help you reach your goals. Your daily decisions will influence generations.

  Elaine S. Dalton

  Running, Prayer, Distance

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• The strength that comes from human collaboration is the central truth behind civilisation's success and the primary reason why cities existwe must free ourselves from our tendency to see cities as their buildings, and remember that the real city is made of flesh, not concrete.

  Edward Glaeser

  Real, Cities, Collaboration

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