Efficacy Quotes - Page 5

• Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to an individual, a principle of holiness is imparted to him; the former can only be ascertained by the latter. It is impossible to obtain a Scriptural knowledge that the merits of Christ's finished work are reckoned to my account, except by proving that the efficacy of the Holy Spirit's work is evident in my soul.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Religious, Soul, Holiness

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• I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Passion, Envy, Hatred

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• More than my questions about the efficacy of social actions were my questions about my own motives. Do i want social justice for the oppressed or do i jusy want to be known as a socially active person? I spend 95 percent of my time thinking about myself anyway. I dont have to watch the evening news to see the world is bad, i only have to look at myself. I am not brow beating here, i am only saying that true charge , true living giving, God honoring change would have to start with the individual. I was the very problem i had been protesting. I wanted to make a sign that read “I am the problem

  Donald Miller

  Thinking, Here I Am, Giving

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• Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mistake, Character, Past

  Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Penny Dreadfuls: Tales of Horror: Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.719, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• When we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have! How woeful is the sloth and negligence then of so many who live blind and asleep to this reality of sin. There is an exceeding efficacy nad power in the indwelling sin of believers, for it constantly inclines itself towards evil. We need to be awake, then, if our hearts would know the ways of God. Our enemy is not only upon us, as it was with Samson, but it is also in us.

  John Owen

  Heart, Reality, Should Have

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• - Nothing else has any efficacy, I might as well be myself. - But your yourself sucks! - It is, lamentably, all I have.

  Junot Diaz

  Might, Wells

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• I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet

  Jane Austen

  Firsts, Driving, Wonder

  Jane Austen (2013). “Pride and Prejudice: The Story of Elizabeth Bennet and Her Dealing with Issues of Manners, Upbringing, Morality, Education and Marriage in the Society of the Landed Gentry of Early 19th-Century England (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.51, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. The various substitutes have not proved so successful from the standpoint of results that they could be regarded as a useful replacement for previous religious creeds. But if religious doctrine and faith are really to embrace the broad masses, the unconditional authority of the content of this faith is the foundation of all efficacy.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Attitude, Successful

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable.

  George Washington

  Government, Unions, Indispensable

  George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.6

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• Those enjoying winning streaks thus win twofold. They win not only the game but also the right to greater self-determination. They become masters of their own fate. That feeling of efficacy, of being in charge of circumstances, is the essence of confidence. Winning once or twice is encouraging, but winning continuously is empowering.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Confidence, Determination, Fate

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (2008). “Confidence”, p.61, Random House

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• My brothers and my sisters, do always persevere in true and earnest prayer, and the Lord will hear you. Believe that the highest revelations of science are conformable to the doctrine of the efficacy of prayer; that in this doctrine the highest philosophy harmonizes with the purest devotion.

  Keshub Chandra Sen

  Brother, Prayer, Philosophy

  Sermon at Hackney Unitarian Church, London, April 24, 1870.

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• Having gone through the civil rights struggle, having gone through the anti-Vietnam War struggle, by the time I was in my 20s, I had something that the current generation doesnt have. And that is a sense of efficacy.

  Paul Solman

  War, Struggle, Rights

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Behavior must also be adequately assessed under appropriate circumstances. Ill-defined global measures of perceived self-efficacy or defective assessments of performance will yield discordances. Disparities will also arise when efficacy is judged for performances in actual situations but performance is measured in simulated situations that are easier to deal with than the actualities

  Albert Bandura

  Assessment, Self, Yield

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• To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience. Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Strong, Groups, Would Be

  Irvin D. Yalom (1983). “Inpatient Group Psychotherapy”, Basic Books

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• [Martin] Luther did not regard the water in baptism as common water, but as a water which had become, through the Word with its inherent divine power, a gracious water of life, a washing of regeneration. Through this divine efficacy of the Word the sacrament effects regeneration.

  Louis Berkhof

  Water Of Life, Baptism, Divine Power

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• The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous, the extraordinary. Thus religion attracts more devotion according as it demands more faith - that is to say, as it becomes more incredible to the profane mind.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Lying, Mind, Atheism

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• Proclaim a theology of divine righteousness which demands justice, respect, tolerance, compassion, inclusiveness, trust in the ultimate efficacy of divine zeal, and the rigorous pursuit of peace in the midst of competing interests and faith claims.

  James A. Forbes

  Compassion, Justice, Tolerance

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• God, once imagined to be an omnipresent force throughout the whole world of nature and man. has been increasingly tending to seem omniabsent. Everywhere, intelligent and educated people rely more and more on purely secular and scientific techniques for the solution of their problems. As science advances, belief in divine miracles and the efficacy of prayer becomes fainter and fainter.

  Corliss Lamont

  Prayer, Intelligent, Men

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• Say not thou lackest talent. What talent had any of the greatest, but passionate faith in the efficacy of work?

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Passionate, Talent

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The efficacy of our prayers depends on how much we care for one another.

  Marion G. Romney

  Prayer, Care, Depends

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• What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental apparatus from the start. There can be no doubt about its efficacy, and yet its programme is at loggerheads with the whole world, with the macrocosm as much as with the microcosm.

  Sigmund Freud

  Doubt, Principles, Purpose

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Stupid, Drug, Mind

  Mary Baker Eddy (1949). “Christian Science Sentinel”

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• Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.

  John Ruskin

  Prayer, Mind, Atheism

  John Ruskin (1879). “Letters to the Clergy on the Lord's Prayer and the Church”, p.29, Library of Alexandria

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• In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Reality, Men

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.33, Penguin

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• Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

  Albert Bandura

  Self, May, Tasks

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