This transformation is already proceeding, and if we want to consciously find these evolutionary currents operating in our own being as well-if we want to consciously join Spirit-in-action-then the four quardrants can help us orient ourselves more effectively, can help us become more conscious of the evolutionary currents already flowing around us and through us and in us.
The question is not what was different about Bathsheba. The difference was what had become different about David.
If you want to become successful, seek to become a person of value
My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
I think the Catholic and Protestant churches have become very stagnant.
Being your best when your best is needed. The ability to enjoy challenges when things become difficult and to derive exhilaration from them.
Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something,it makes me incapable of doing it. When I believe I can,I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning. ’"Mahatma Gandhi
If you feel the purpose of life is struggle, Darwinian fitness, dog eat dog, then you will be eaten by a dog, or you will eat dog. You become what you focus on.
Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you
The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right way. And we must truly secure the border. We can't leave it porous.
My dream has become a reality now, and it's the best feeling I've ever had.
If you love money and you want to be creative, you cannot become creative. The very ambition for money is going to destroy your creativity. If you want fame, then forget about creativity. Fame comes easier if you are destructive.
You will never become rich, until you hate poverty
I'm in no rush to become extremely famous.
I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire. [I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heir. ]
The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which is both natural and supernatural--understandable, and credible, to his reader. In any age this would be a problem, but in our own, it is a well- nigh insurmountable one. Today's audience is one in which religious feeling has become, if not atrophied, at least vaporous and sentimental.
We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. . . That we actually have the guts, the perserverance, the capacity. . . because, if it's true, then we become estranged from all we know.
There's a great book by my friend Nate Garvis called Naked Civics that was very important in my development as someone with a social conscious and that has become, I guess, something of an activist.
If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.
Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.