We are defined by our faith, not by our failings.

Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions.

— Bill Johnson

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

— Pat Metheny

Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline…

— Robert Gilpin

One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else.…

— D. Elton Trueblood

If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political…

— Edward Snowden

The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]…

— Carl Jung

Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and…

— John Adams

Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the…

— Robert Foster Bennett

Before it can be solved, a problem must be clearly defined.

— William Feather

My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't…

— Athol Fugard

If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily…

— Peter Thiel

Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take…

— Anonymous

the most terribly human moments - the ones we want to pretend never happened - are the very moments that make us who we…

— Jenny Lawson

“We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past.”

— Pittacus Lore

This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without…

— Philip Alston