As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.
Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they were bivouacked. He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth.
If there be any who nurture in their hearts the poisonous brew of enmity toward another, I plead with you to ask the Lord for strength to forgive. This expression of desire will be of the very substance of your repentance. It may not be easy, and it may not come quickly. But if you will seek it with sincerity and cultivate it, it will come. And even though he whom you have forgiven continues to pursue and threaten you, you will know you have done what you could to effect a reconciliation. There will come into your heart a peace otherwise unattainable.
Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.
I began my pilgrimage on the first of January in 1953. It is my spiritual birthday of sorts. It was a period in which I was merged with the whole. No longer was I a seed buried under the ground, but I felt as a flower reaching out effortlessly toward the sun.
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?
Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
If you want prosperity, you must refuse to accept any circumstances that lead toward poverty.
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. . . There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.
France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.
Everything that is full of life loves change, for the characteristic of life is movement toward a new goal and urges toward new pleasures
Take a friendly attitude toward your thoughts.
[The Clean Power Plan] is an important step toward curbing carbon pollution and addressing climate change.
Take the best action toward your most important goal right now.
Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity; it is always on the verge of turning itself into an enormous cable machine.
Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and second centuries. For nearly all Christians since that time, Catholics, Protestants, or Orthodox, have shared three basic premises. First, they accept the canon of the New Testament; second, they confess the apostolic creed; and third, they affirm specific forms of church institution. But every one of these - the canon of Scripture, the creed, and the institutional structure - emerged in its present form only toward the end of the second century.
More striking still, it appeared that, if the process of concentration goes on at the same rate, at the end of another century we shall have all American industry controlled by a dozen corporations and run by perhaps a hundred men. Put plainly, we are steering a steady course toward economic oligarchy, if we are not there already.
Sebastian never does anything just for fun. ” Jace took Clary’s hand and pulled her toward him. “But I do.
We very much hope that as we get growth that we can reduce the burden of taxation, that we can reduce income tax and increase the amount of genuine free enterprise and business enterprise. . . This is going. . . toward the restoration of the personal responsibility, the independence, with every man a property owner, every man a capitalist.
