This is no time for wimpy Christians. It's time for soldiers of Christ to arise!
Half of our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel. - John Churton Collins The person who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story.
Allow rather than resist what arises in the present moment-inside or out. Let it be interesting rather than good or bad.
We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become different in the questions that arise as we read, in the answers that we find, in the degree of satisfaction or unease we feel with those answers. . . In the hands of a different reader, the same story can be a different story.
Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions of "lower" animals with simple nervous systems arise as genetic products of natural selection, then human behavior should have a similar basis.
What is bad? -Everything that arises from weakness.
Inspiration pushes me out of my tight intellectual comfort zone and into humility, the wonderous state of not knowing. From this place of zero, limitless possibilities seem to arise.
I trust myself to deal with any problems that arise during the day
Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. Flesh and blood cannot come to the Mountains [heaven]. Not because they are too rank, but because they are too weak. What is a Lizard compared with a stallion? Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.
Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values.
There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros.
Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.
Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. . . The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.
I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.
More errors arise from inhibited indecision than from impulsive behavior.
When a great moment arises, it is great to be right there!
Then stars arise, and the night is holy.
The evolution of cultures appears to follow the pattern of the evolution of species. The many different forms of culture which arise correspond to the "mutations" of genetic theory. Some forms prove to be effective under prevailing circumstances and others not, and the perpetuation of the culture is determined accordingly.