Grasped Quotes

145 Grasped quotes by 128 unique authors

Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book.… — Rebecca Mead
When I put my pen to a blank sheet, black isn’t added but rather the white sheet is deprived of light. [] Thus I also… — Adrian Frutiger
The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly… — William James
Oh, to have “the word of Christ” always dwelling inside of us;-in the memory, never forgotten; in the heart, always loved; in the understanding, really… — Charles Spurgeon
A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new… — Henri Matisse
I believe the sense of lost opportunity is rooted in a faulty understanding of God's grace. Likewise, when grace is grasped and embraced, the Land… — David Jeremiah
...with a rush of feeling he felt that this must be happiness. As soon as the thought came to him, he fought it back, blaming… — John McGahern
For the soul of a person to be inflamed with passion for the living God, that person's mind must first be informed about the character… — R C Sproul
The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed. — J C Ryle
No one seeing a beautifully elaborated lyre with its harmonious, orderly arrangement, and hearing the lyre's music will fail to form a notion of its… — Gregory of Nazianzus
The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough ... Moreover, our greatest task is to keep you faithful… — Martin Luther
I believe we face the question: if not now, then when? And if we are grasped by this vision, we may also hear the question:… — N. T. Wright
The opportunity of a lifetime must be grasped within the lifetime of that opportunity. — Catherine DeVrye
Your true meaning cannot be grasped or captured by words. You can never be equated with any words, because you are prior to words. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The measure of biblical truth that we have grasped is not determined by the size of our heads, but the breadth of our hearts. — Paul Washer
Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really grasped and yet… — Claude Bernard
That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment… — Sebastian Faulks
It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and… — Charlie Munger
Karl Popper once advised a student that if he wanted to reap intellectual fame, he should write endless pages of obscure, high-flown prose that would… — Anthony de Jasay
Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp. — Mahatma Gandhi
The first step into the realm of giving is...not manward but Godward: an utter yielding of our best. So long as our idea of surrender… — Lilias Trotter
When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as… — Marcel Proust
Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of… — Molly Ivins
My eyes already touch the sunny hill. Going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;… — Rainer Maria Rilke
It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic… — Graham Joyce

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