Spheres Quotes - Page 31

• Every corporeal substance, so far forth as it is corporeal, has a natural fitness for resting in every place where it may be situated by itself beyond the sphere of influence of a body cognate with it.

  Johannes Kepler

  Substance, Body, Sphere Of Influence

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 35), 1920.

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• The heaven is spherical in shape, and moves as a sphere; the earth too is sensibly spherical in shape, when taken as a whole; in position it lies in the middle of the heavens very much like its center; in size and distance it has the ratio of a point to the sphere of the fixed stars; and it has no motion from place to place.

  Ptolemy

  Stars, Distance, Lying

  Ptolemy (1984). “Ptolemy's Almagest”, Bloomsbury Academic

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• Make then your forecasts, my lords Astrologers, with your slavish physicians, by means of those astrolabes with which you seek to discern the fantastic nine moving spheres; in these you finally imprison your own minds, so that you appear to me but as parrots in a cage, while I watch you dancing up and down, turning and hopping within those circles.

  Giordano Bruno

  Moving, Mean, Circles

  "On the Infinite Universe and Worlds". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• There is a world above, Where parting is unknown; A whole eternity of love, Form'd for the good alone; And faith beholds the dying here Translated to that happier sphere.

  James Montgomery

  Heaven, Dying, World

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.351

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• God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.

  John Piper

  Dream, Passion, Thinking

  John Piper (2003). “Don't Waste Your Life”, Crossway

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• Oh that God would help me waken in you a single passion for a single great reality that would unleash you, and set you free from small dreams, and send you, for the glory of Christ, into all the spheres of secular life and to all the peoples of the earth.

  John Piper

  Dream, Passion, Reality

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• Divine favor causes you to rise to the top in your sphere of influence, and the reality is that favor can be recognized more easily is your start at the bottom.

  Bill Johnson

  Reality, Sphere Of Influence, Favors

  Bill Johnson (2015). “Face to Face with God”, p.51, Charisma Media

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• Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion.

  Julian Huxley

  Ideas, Rational, Discussion

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• The health of our home planet and the survival of our species will only be secured through the use of space resources and the expansion of Earth's economic sphere to the Moon and beyond. Creating an off-Earth economy and multi-planet civilization will safeguard the long term prospects of humanity.

  Bob Richards

  Home, Moon, Creating

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• Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.

  Thomas Cochrane

  Moral Absolutism, Physics, Biology

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• The most serious problems lie in the financial sphere, where the economy's debt overhead has grown more rapidly than the 'real' economy's ability to carry this debt. [...] The essence of the global financial bubble is that savings are diverted to inflate the stock market, bond market and real estate prices rather than to build new factories and employ more labor.

  Michael Hudson

  Real, Lying, Essence

  "Financial Capitalism v. Industrial Capitalism". michael-hudson.com. September 3, 1998.

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• Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.

  Herbert Schiller

  Powerful, Improvement, Social

  "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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• The medieval theologian who gazed at the night sky through the eyes of Aristotle and saw angels moving the spheres in harmony has become the modern cosmologist who gazes at the same sky through the eyes of Einstein and sees the hand of God not in angels but in the constants of nature. When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it¹s very tempting to take the leap of faith from science into religion. I am sure many physicists want to. I only wish they would admit it.

  Tony Rothman

  Moving, Eye, Angel

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• The battle of life is already half won by the young man who is brought in contact with high officials; and the great aim of every boy should be to do something beyond the sphere of his duties- something which attracts the attention of those over him.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Boys, Men, Battle

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie”, p.63, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• A zealous man feels that like a lamp he is made to burn; and if consumed in burning, he has but done the work for which God appointed him. Such a one will always find a sphere for his zeal. If he cannot preach and work and give money, he will cry and sigh and pray.

  J. C. Ryle

  Men, Giving, Lamps

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• As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Believe, Long

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• Political democracy cannot flourish under all economic conditions. Democracy requires an economic system which supports the political ideals of liberty and equality for all. Men cannot exercise freedom in the political sphere when they are deprived of it in the economic sphere.

  Mortimer Adler

  Exercise, Men, Support

  Louis O. Kelso, Mortimer J. Adler (2017). “The Capitalist Manifesto”, p.6, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals.

  Fredric Jameson

  Two, Culture, Levels

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• Ethical religion affirms the continuity of progress toward moral perfection. It affirms that the spiritual development of the human race cannot be prematurely cut off, either gradually or suddenly; that every stone of offence against which we stumble is a stepping-stone to some greater good; that, at the end of days, if we choose to put it so, or, rather, in some sphere beyond the world of space and time, all the rays of progress will be summed and centred in a transcendent focus.

  Felix Adler

  Spiritual, Cutting, Space

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• He [God] made us free, and He respects that. It is two different spheres of causality. Interdependent, though. It is not two boxes looking at one another without any kind of direct connections. There are very direct connections. That's why the question of "how are we free if God is omnipotent?" is a real, constant question. Ultimately, God is all powerful, and yet we are free.

  Francis George

  Powerful, Real, Two

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• Within your sphere of responsibility you have as serious an obligation as do I within my sphere of responsibility. Each of us should be determined to build the kingdom of God on the earth and to further the work of righteousness.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Responsibility, Earth, Kingdoms

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• Hardly anything can be more important in the mental training of a child than the bringing him to do it in its proper time, whether he enjoys it or not. The measure of a child's ability to do this becomes, in the long run, the measure of his practical efficiency in whatever sphere of life he labors.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Running, Children, Long

  Henry Clay Trumbull (1893). “Hints on Child-training”

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• We have a solution for war. It is to expand the sphere of liberty.

  Rudolph Rummel

  War, Liberty, Solutions

  "Rudolph Rummel Talks About the Miracle of Liberty and Peace". The Freeman Interview, fee.org. July 1, 1997.

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• In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored. All the great creators have foreseen this turning-point. Today, in the depths of culture itself and in all its separate spheres, this crisis of creativity is ripening.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Creativity, Identity, Depth

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• To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ambition, Soul, Modern

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.706, Vintage

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