It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one.
Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance. " We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them, or die.
You treat violence as an aberration. . . when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20.
There has never been anything but the Self. There is no world, there is no time, there is no place, there is no condition. There is nothing and there can be nothing else.
A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership, which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.
Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
By His gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging His condition for ours revealed the power that elevates man to God through his love for God and brings God down to man because of His love for man. By this blessed inversion, man is made God by divinization and God is made man by hominization. For the Word of God and God wills always and in all things to accomplish the mystery of His embodiment.
The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.
Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.
I'm the age I am, but my skin is in pretty good condition because I've been consistent with my skincare.
The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.
People aren't problems to be fixed. People are people, for us to walk alongside and journey with and help pick up the pieces with and, when they drop them again, to get back down and help them pick them up again. And that's real love - without condition and without expectation.
It would much conduce to the settlement of your heart, to consider that by fretting and discontent you do yourself more injury than all your afflictions could do. Your own discontent is that which arms your troubles with a sting; you make your burden heavy by struggling under it. Did you but lie quietly under the hand of God, your condition would be much more easy than it is.
Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.
Aging is no accident. It is necessary to the human condition, intended by the soul. We become more characteristic of who we are simply by lasting into later years; the older we become, the more our true natures emerge. Thus the final years have a very important purpose: the fulfillment and confirmation of one’s character.
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.
A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.