Spheres Quotes - Page 25

• I believe that the sphere of service, your career, the plan which God has mapped out for you and prepared for you, is the greatest agency in His hands to conform You to His character and to His will.

  Alan Redpath

  Believe, Character, Agency

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• For one to control one's thoughts and feelings means one can actually control one's atmosphere and all who walk into its sphere of influence.

  Malcolm X

  Mean, Feelings, Atmosphere

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• So much of what we see and hear about the Middle East focuses on what we call politics, which is essentially ideology. But when it comes to the Middle East, and especially the Arab world, simply depicting people as human beings is the most political thing you can do. And that's why I chose to write about food: food is inherently political, but it's also an essential part of people's real lives. It's where the public and private spheres connect.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Real, Writing, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Limits, Individual, States

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.53, VM eBooks

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• One of the genuine phenomenons over the past four decades has been the liberal community's steadfast insistence that God should be barred from the public sphere. This is not law. It is religious prejudice.

  Armstrong Williams

  Religious, Past, Law

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• The sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high above them by its right to command and compel. But within these spheres ... another authority rules, an authority that descends directly from God apart from the state. This authority the state does not confer but acknowledges.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Doe, Individual, Authority

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• Major theme of the book ["Hotels of North America"], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the digital sphere, and/or what is the effect of it on self in a prolonged interaction.

  Rick Moody

  Book, Self, Views

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I would want to keep that in a little glass sphere, perhaps in the corner of my living room, lit up. But, I think that's an extremely expensive rig. The costumes were crazy expensive, beyond anything they could afford to give you, to take away. They're going to be in a museum of some kind, on display until they get the go for Tron: Legacy 2. It would have been awesome to keep, though. I don't think there was anything that they could afford to let go. I probably would have been arrested.

  James Frain

  Letting Go, Crazy, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• A Christian boy or girl can learn mathematics, for example, from a teacher who is not a Christian; and truth is truth however learned. But while truth is truth however learned, the bearing of truth, the meaning of truth, the purpose of truth, even in the sphere of mathematics, seem entirely different to the Christian from that which they seem to the non-Christian; and that is why a truly Christian education is possible only when Christian conviction underlies not a part but all, of the curriculum of the school.

  John Gresham Machen

  Girl, Christian, Teacher

  John Gresham Machen (1951). “What is Christianity?: And Other Addresses”

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• It is easier to give directions than advice, and more agreeable to have the right to act, even in a limited sphere, than the privilege to talk at large.

  Winston Churchill

  Giving, Advice, Privilege

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.365, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres.

  Rumi

  Wings, Clarity, Soar

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.237, Penguin UK

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• Finally, you're right about one point, your entire way of thinking is predicted by what you're immersed in so you know you won't make a bad decision. You can make a bad decision but it's still in the good sphere normally if you work well. You're prepared to face a crew who wants to know everything and poses a hundred questions a minute, because you know you have good reflexes and can respond very quickly.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Thinking, Decision, Way

  "Director Michel Hazanavicius THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 26, 2011.

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• The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to live the heroic lives. But we all have hero stuff in us. In our sphere of life we can always live more heroically and triumphantly and grow in heroic stature.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Hero, Men, Progress

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• See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.

  Paul Cezanne

  Cylinders, Cones, Term

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• Germany has acted effectively during the euro crisis. It needs to build on this to engage in other spheres too.

  Joachim Gauck

  Euro Crisis, Germany, Needs

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• We understand hereby, that the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their existence to the State, but obey a high authority within their own bosom; an authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Art, Grace, Doe

  Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.90, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Government sponsors untold waste, criminality and inequality in every sphere of life it touches, giving little or nothing in return.

  Doug Casey

  Government, Giving, Littles

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• Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations. And since these problems have a universal significance, the sphere of ethics is wider than is generally supposed. It deals with meaning and value and its province is the world in which the distinction between good and evil is drawn, evaluations are made and meaning is sought.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Philosophy, Evil, World

  "The Destiny of Man". Book by Nikolai Berdyaev, 1931.

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• There is no surer mark of a low and unregenerate nature than this tendency of power to loudness and wantonness instead of quietness and reverence. To souls baptized in Christian nobleness the largest sphere of command is but a wider empire of obedience, calling them, not to escape from holy rule, but to its full impersonation.

  James Martineau

  Christian, Power, Baptized In

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 456), 1895.

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• About the fearful sphere which we inhabit, whose centre may be calculated and whose circumference is physically established, there spin metaphors whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference shows itself only through holes in the dark.

  Michael Ayrton

  Dark, Earth, May

  Michael Ayrton (1971). “The Rudiments of Paradise: Various Essays on Various Arts”

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• Atlas, we read in ancient song, Was so exceeding tall and strong, He bore the skies upon his back, Just as the pedler does his pack; But, as the pedler overpress'd Unloads upon a stall to rest, Or, when he can no longer stand, Desires a friend to lend a hand, So Atlas, lest the ponderous spheres Should sink, and fall about his ears, Got Hercules to bear the pile, That he might sit and rest awhile.

  Jonathan Swift

  Song, Strong, Fall

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.3013, Delphi Classics

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• It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.

  Aldous Huxley

  Order, Economics, Social

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• Some god or Weltgeist has been making a movie out of us for the past six thousand years, and now we have turned a corner on the movie set of reality and have discovered the boards propping up the two-dimensional monuments of human history. The movement of humanism has reached its limit, and now at that limit it is breaking apart into the opposites of mechanism and mysticism and moving along the circumference of a vast new sphere of posthuman thought.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Moving, Past, Reality

  William Irwin Thompson (1980). “Passages about Earth: An Exploration of the New Planetary Culture”, HarperCollins

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• Not all practitioners can jump to that highest level. They have to climb, step by step from the physical sphere to reach the spiritual sphere. If it is treated as exercise it is not the fault of yoga but of the practitioners.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Spiritual, Yoga, Exercise

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• The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.

  David Harvey

  Social, Existence, Relation

  "The Limits to Capital". Book by David Harvey, 2006 VERSO Edition,

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