Gives Quotes - page 71

The indrawing attraction drags us out of ourselves, And calls us to be melted away and naughted in the Unity. And in this indrawing attraction we feel that God wills that we should be His, And for this we must abnegate ourselves and let our beatitude be accomplished in Him. But when He attracts us by flowing out towards us, He gives us over to ourselves and makes us free, And sets us in Time. (John Ruysbroeck)
And though the union is without intermediary, The manifold works that God does In heaven and earth are, however, Hidden from the spirit. For though God gives Himself as He is with a clear distinction, He gives Himself in the soul's essence, Where the soul's powers are unified Above reason And undergo God's transformation In simplicity. In this place all is full And overflowing, for the spirit feels itself As one truth and one richness And one unity with God. View quote
John Ruysbroeck
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. View quote
C. S. Lewis
If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for men. It gives them information about the source and origin of the universe, it assures them of protection and final happiness amid the changing vicissitudes of life, and it guides their thoughts and motions by means of precepts which are backed by the whole force of its authority. View quote
Sigmund Freud
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. View quote
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
My friend made me a leather dress for the MTV awards. It gives you confidence, wearing something you love. View quote
Cat Deeley
The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit. View quote
Hugh Blair
The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other. View quote
Milan Kundera
A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster. View quote
Milan Kundera
Socialism knows that revolutionary upheavals and transformations proceed from the rock bed of material needs. With a full appreciation of and veneration for moral impulses that are balanced with scientific knowledge, it eschews, looks with just suspicion upon and gives a wide berth to balloon morality, or be it those malarial fevers that reformers love to dignify with the name of "moral feelings" View quote
Daniel De Leon
The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete. (Laozi)
Thy light alone like mist o'er mountains driven, Or music by the night-wind sent Through strings of some still instrument, Or moonlight on a midnight stream, Gives grace and truth to life's unquiet dream. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
When I'm on a train and see an empty pitch, it gives me a certain pleasure that I can't quite describe. It's to do with potential. View quote
Patrick Marber
The wiser head gives in! An immortal phrase. It founds the world dominion of stupidity. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
The world is sacred because it gives an inkling of a meaning that escapes us. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Work is the only thing that gives substance to life. View quote
Albert Einstein
Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss. View quote
Albert Einstein
But we have higher mathematics, haven't we? This gives me freedom from my senses. The language of mathematics is even more inborn and universal than the language of music; a mathematical formula is crystal clear and independent of all sense organs. I therefore built a mathematical laboratory, set myself in it as if I were sitting in a car, and moved along with a beam of light. View quote
Albert Einstein
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding. (Edward Abbey)
The trade of insurance gives great security to the fortunes of private people, and by dividing among a great many that loss which would ruin an individual, makes it fall light and easy upon the whole society. View quote
Adam Smith
Hence when the man of science says, 'There is no God,' he only gives voice to the feeling of the inadequacy of the old anthropomorphic conception, in the presence of the astounding facts of the universe. View quote
John Burroughs
But if you say: "How am I to know what he means, when I see nothing but the signs he gives?" then I say: "How is he to know what he means, when he has nothing but the signs either?" View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is a major defect of our present organized system and the economy of abundance that, without providing great goals, it has taken away some of the important real necessities, leaving people with nothing to do. The void is soon filled. Behavior like going into debt on the installment plan, gives an artificial but then real necessity, something to do, paying up. This is the Rat Race, but I doubt that it would be run if people did not need its justifying necessity, for the commodities themselves are not that attractive. View quote
Paul Goodman