Grasped Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I can never know beforehand how Godâ€™s image should appear in others. That image always manifests a completely new and unique form that comes solely… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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
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
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
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
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
What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love. — William Sloane Coffin
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
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
What is not grasped has all the chances to become real. — Edmond Jabes
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
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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