When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the… — Austin Farrer Copy Share Image
“Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Some have said that I can accept inadequacies in my players but not in umpires. That completely misses the point. I can't… — Earl Weaver Copy Share Image
We should seek after spiritual gifts. They can lead us to God. They can shield us from the power of the adversary.… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Words are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world, to… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Like sacrifices, prayer is intended to change man, not God. Its purpose is to cultivate a contrite heart, to promote feelings of… — Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits Copy Share Image
When the darkness is seen as a necessary prelude to the creative light, one is less likely to ascribe frustration to personal… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“i'm only human, & inadequacy is what makes us human, & if we was perfect we wdnt have nothin to strive for,… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
Men as well as women, must strive for a balance of experience. Masculinity, defined as requiring the ability to act physically or… — Eva Cox Copy Share Image
Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated,… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share Image
You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I had to wrestle daily with both my inadequacy and my uncontrollable jealousy. I didn't want to kill her, but hoped someone… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
trouble is not a sign of inadequacy, stupidity or inferiority, but rather an inescapable part of life - proof that you are… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms… — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
I didn't go to university; I hardly went to school, but I grew up among people well versed in Henry James and… — Emma Tennant Copy Share Image
A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
How many of those who are insecure seek power over others as a compensation for inadequacy and wind up bringing consequences down… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
You can be loved by your family, your mate, and your friends yet not love yourself. You can be admired by your… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There may never be a baby book that offers the conclusive answer to every question, but it's possible to extract some wisdom… — Libby Copeland Copy Share Image
“... each gratification points to the ultimate one, and that all happiness has some connection with eternal beatitude. Some connection, if only… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
It took years after I’d graduated from Amherst to realize that people were actually far more complicated and interesting than books, that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Therefore only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The Savior desires to save us from our inadequacies as well as our sins. Inadequacy is not the same as being sinful… — Bruce C. Hafen Copy Share Image
I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The life we live today - the environment in which we live - is not one of security - it's one of… — Reg Butler Copy Share Image
Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
It is not his business to argue men into faith, for that cannot be done; but it is his business to demonstrate… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
... there are those who believe that mathematics can sustain itself and grow without any further contact with anything outside itself, and… — Mark Kac Copy Share Image
Perhaps we will one day be able at least to admit of a God possessing sufficient majesty and expansiveness to transcend the… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
Only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to… — Confucius Copy Share Image
