Grasped Quotes
145 quotes by 128 authors
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The 'success' of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and 'grasps' us, or we cannot be 'grasped.
— Eric Metaxas
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At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader…
— Richard Adams
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A technique can only work if it is in harmony with universal principles. Such principles need to be grasped through Mind, pure consciousness. Selfish desires…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all…
— Plato
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When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it's difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche grasped tightly…
— Roger Delano Hinkins
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They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them,…
— George Orwell
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The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of The Planets enables the mind…
— Gustav Holst
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We become new if we let ourselves be grasped and shaped by the new Man, Jesus Christ. He is the new Man par excellence. In…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I can never know beforehand how God’s image should appear in others. That image always manifests a completely new and unique form that comes solely…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.
— C.S. Lewis
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I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time... before writing them down... once I have grasped a theme. I shall not forget…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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When we cling to thoughts and memories, we are clinging to what cannot be grasped. When we touch these phantoms and let them go, we…
— Pema Chodron
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The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation. It is simply the Dharma gate of repose and bliss, the practice-realization of totally culminated enlightenment.…
— Dogen
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PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only…
— Unknown Author
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What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
— William Sloane Coffin
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Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in…
— Cyril Connolly
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Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if…
— Robertson Davies
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What is not grasped has all the chances to become real.
— Edmond Jabes
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Happiness, I have grasped, is a destination, like strawberry Fields. Once you find the way in, there you are, and you'll never feel low again.
— Rachel Simon
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Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in the applause.…
— Sydney J. Harris
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